My answer is no. As long as you do as perlsyn and the books suggest about what situation you should use a die in I think you should be fine putting the die in the subs rather than the main program. Just be sure to give a good error message chock full of info when you die - no matter where it's from.

One neat thing to look at when doing this is the caller function. This will help you spit out some interesting info about the situation when things went wrong. Also remeber to check $! (or $@ for dies from an eval) on the way out when appropriate. I like simple ones =)

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