How about overloading it in a more informative way? Perhaps you could overload print() with something like this (untested):

sub print {
  my $string = join '', @_;
  if ($string =~ /^(Content-type:)/) {
    CORE::print $string;
  }
  else {
    CORE::print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    die "You used print() rather than returning a string, you naughty 
+person";
  }
}

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Something I DON'T know, however... would one need to prototype this overloaded print() to assure that it would work when used without parenthases, or is that taken care of becuase the built-in print() is already prototyped? You'd probably want to be sure beore doing it this way.

Alan "Hot Pastrami" Bellows

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 1: overloading the print function (or alternatives) by Hot Pastrami
in thread overloading the print function (or alternatives) by nate

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