This sounds like a Good Thing (tm) - cuts down on typing / file size (marginally, but it all helps) and more importantly makes sure I don't forget to do the error checking.

Looking at the docs, it looks admirably flexible:

C<Fatal> provides a way to conveniently replace functions which normally return a false value when they fail with equivalents which halt execution if they are not successful.

As I read it, this means if I have a function 'foo' that sometimes returns false, and I'd like to know about that for test purposes, say, I can do import Fatal 'foo'; Thus where I have 
use Fatal;
import Fatal 'foo';

sub foo {
my $test = rand;
return $test if $test > .5;
}

my $test = foo();
print $test;

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Each time rand is less than .5, I get 
Can't foo(), $! is "No such file or directory" at (eval 1) line 3
        main::__ANON__() called at p.pl line 10

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... which is better than nothing.

The only reason I can think of for doing my own error checking is so that I can supply my own useful info about the failure. So for example I probably wouldn't use this for error-checking DBI function calls, because I would want to add $dbh->errstr.

Thanks for drawing attention to this.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Re: use Fatal; by George_Sherston
in thread use Fatal; by cLive ;-)

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