Yes, you can also literally redefine die using a typeglob in a BEGIN block, but I would disagree that this is generally what one would want. If you want to prevent die from killing your script, I think it is far better to trap potential dies in eval blocks, since you won't violate assumptions made in code you are calling (like having an open fail and still trying to process input). If you are not calling any external code, there is (generally) no reason to be using die in the first place if you don't want to throw exceptions.

Certainly in the case of the OP, there is no indication that the exception should be prevented.

In reply to Re^3: Customizing the 'die' funtion by kennethk
in thread Customizing the 'die' funtion by paragkalra

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