Downsides are that it looks ugly if you don't have an __DIE__ handler
If you overload the stringification operator for your object then you should be able to get the desired behaviour for die.

Another option is that you could overload die and warn e.g 

BEGIN {
    *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {
      CORE::die("$_[0]->{type}: $_[0]->{msg}\n");
    };
    *CORE::GLOBAL::warn = sub {
      CORE::warn("$_[0]->{type}: $_[0]->{msg}\n");
    };
}

warn { type => "warntest", msg => "missing point" };
die  { type => "dietest",  msg => "and I'm done"  };

__output__

warntest: missing point
dietest: and I'm done

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Extraordinarily hackish, but at least there's an option :)
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Argument stringification in __WARN__ and __DIE__ by broquaint
in thread Argument stringification in __WARN__ and __DIE__ by Rhandom

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