Yes, perlvar states that you "can set $!" if you want to set the exit code for a subsequent die(). Croak would seem on its face to be a natural extension to die, and maybe should support the propagation of numeric $!.

However, I would expect that if you really want to send a specific numerical exit code, that you do so forcefully and legibly, so that future folks really understand that the exit code is important. There are a lot of magic variables which people think of as "read-only," and before I checked, I thought $! was one of them. 

carp "Why I'm crashing";
exit(10);

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Even if you don't agree that this is more readable, it should be a proper work-around for you. The case where this wouldn't work is if your caller is trying to use eval in the eval/die exception-throwing model.

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In reply to Re: Bug with Carp and $!/$? by halley
in thread Bug with Carp and $!/$? by Kageneko

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