It seems as if Fatal.pm behaves oddly when the tag :void is specified. Fatal seems to affect $!. Consider the following script temp.pl: 
use strict; use warnings;
use Fatal qw(:void open);
open my $f, '<no_such_file' or die $!;

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This example behaves differently with and without the "use Fatal;" line. With this line, the output is
Died at temp.pl line 3.
Without the line, the output is
No such file or directory at temp.pl line 3.
So $! is cleared. Is that how it's supposed to work? I expected Fatal to have no effect in this case, since open is being used in scalar context, not void.

I'm running perl v5.6.1, ActiveState build 633. Thanks for your help.

In reply to use Fatal ':void' vs. $! by useruser

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