Let me make one suggestion that may seem obvious to someone that has not been looking at this code before (You know that phenomenon where you look at the same block of code for hours trying to find the bug and then finally go ask someone to help you out and they point out the obvious error before you finish explaining the problem?). If you have an if ( ! some_test() ), it is generally more readable to say unless ( some_test() ). So using this logic 
if ( ! $NONFATALERROR == 0 ) {
...
}

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becomes 
unless ( $NONFATALERROR == 0 ) {
...
}

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which is really 
unless ( ! $NONFATALERROR ) { 
...

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because any non-zero value (undef evaluates to 0 in this context) is TRUE. Using the same aurgument against unless ( ! some_test() ) as we did against if ( ! some_test() ), we then get 
if ( $NONFATALERROR ) {
...
}

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It's nitpicking, to be sure, but minor changes can have major benefit for anyone that has to maintain the code later, even the original author.

Ivan Heffner
Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead
WhitePages.com, Inc.

In reply to Re: anonymous code blocks by Codon
in thread anonymous code blocks by tcf03

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