Greetings,

I'm in the habit of using or die... in many parts of my code. Lately I've begun to use Test::* tools. Now the trouble with die is that the program exits, never returning to the test harness. In a large group of tests I can't know what test actually failed/died. Consider:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More;

ok( _pass(), "Pass" );
ok( _fail(), "Fail" );
done_testing();

sub _pass
{
   return 1
}

sub _fail 
{
   die "Die, Die, Die";
}

neil@ettin ~/src/perltest $ ./foo.pl 
ok 1 - Pass
Die, Die, Die at ./foo.pl line 18.
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not s
+een.
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I've been using do blocks, but feel clunky.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More;

ok( _pass(), "Pass" );
ok( _fail(), "Fail" );
done_testing();

sub _pass
{
   return 1
}

sub _fail 
{
   0 or do {
      warn "Die, Die, Die";
      return 0;
   };
}

neil@ettin ~/src/perltest $ ./foo.pl 
ok 1 - Pass
Die, Die, Die at ./foo.pl line 19.
not ok 2 - Fail
#   Failed test 'Fail'
#   at ./foo.pl line 8.
1..2
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.
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Is there a better way?

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