Hehe, I actually poked around perlvar a little bit, but by over-riding __DIE__ I was referring to this node. I will definately finish looking through perlvar.

Carp sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I didn't realize Carp printed the line number automatically, so it should work almost exactly like what I was looking for.

thanks
--
Ben
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart."