I don't take it the wrong way :)

Most of my work is generating content for an API, which wants specifically formatted error handling (which I conveniently left out of my post). I want to die in a clean, and parse-able, way so that the programmer on the other end can either a) figure out what they did wrong or b) communicate with me effectively about what happened. I also use a lot of Mark Overmeer's excellent Log::Report module to make sane logs for internal analysis.

I COULD override die, I guess, and generate something that way. But my laziness doesn't extend that far.

I COULD override die, I guess, and generate something that way. But my laziness doesn't extend that far.

I would probably be that lazy:

my $dbh=DBI->connect(..., {RaiseError => 1});
# later:
if (eval {
    # use $dbh
    # perhaps the entire API handling
    1;
}) {
    # report success to the API
} else {
    my $error=$@;
    # Post-Process $error if needed
    # report $error to the API
}
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Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)