Hi,

maybe someone can help me understanding why "die" does not die when it's called within a file that in turn is called with a do statement.

I've created 2 files, calling.pl and called.pl as per below. The output of perl -w calling.pl is given underneath. It seems the "die" statement in called.pl does not get executed.

Can anybody help?

Thanks.

calling.pl:

do 'called.pl':;
print "printing from calling program\n";
die "dying from calling program, stopped";
[download]

called.pl:

print "printing from called program\n";
print STDERR "printing from called program to stderr\n";
die "dying from called program, stopped";
[download]

output:

printing from called program
printing from called program to stderr
printing from calling program
dying from calling program, stopped at calling.pl line 3.
[download]

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