Good day, fellow monks!

Yes, perl does consider my die an indirect object method call. I checked with B::Deparse. And the question is -- how to prevent the situation?

My code (I tried to implement something like My::Exception class from this perl.apache.org doc) is below.

File AA/BB.pm 

package AA::BB;

sub die(@) { die @_ };

sub import {
*CORE::GLOBAL::die = \¨
}

1;

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File testdie.pl: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use AA::BB;

eval { die AA::BB->new; };

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Deparsed test.pl: 
% perl -MO=Deparse testdie.pl
eval {
    'AA::BB'->CORE::GLOBAL::die->new;
};

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I'd really like to throw exceptions without additional parens like this: die MyApp::Error->new() and this very syntax is everywhere on the web.

Ah, and this is perl 5.6.2.

Update: looks like a bug fixed somewhere between 5.6.2 and 5.8.7. So the new question is: is there a way to force die() as a sub? Upgrading perl is not an option for me due to different Unicode :(

--kap

In reply to perl calls die() as a method by kappa

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