My question was simply this: is there something internal that die does that is necessary to exit a script properly?

The very point of this is to provide a more detailed error message, such as you describe, so the user does indeed know what the problem is without ungraciously dumping them in the middle of nowhere.

Update: To clarify, almost 100% of the time, this scenario is usually part of processing an HTML form which is uploading something or performing some file op, such as deleting a file. If there is an error, I use HTML::Template and HTML::FillInForm to re-display the form with the error message at the top so they can try again (or at least know what happened).


—Brad
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In reply to Re^2: Friendly error trapping by bradcathey
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