Hi,

I've a small test case executor that starts external perl files given by name via
my $result = do($filename)

The test cases usually do some stuff and in error case can return at different code lines. For analysis it would be nice to see from which line the external perl file returned.

Now I could do sth. like this when returning from test case file:
return __LINE__;

But then I will need to touch all existing test cases. Any other suggestions I can solve this?

Something like caller() would be nice but it's clear contrary to a caller stack a returner stack is neither necessary nor really makes sense. But perl has such a lot special variables may be perl knows at least the last line of a "done" perl file :)

Thanks a lot for any useful comment!

In reply to returner / opposite of caller by demoralizer

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