Sure, you can leave off the else, but that makes your code less flexible. Suppose you want to replace the die with a warn, then you shouldn't forget introduce the else. Again, if there's just a commit, not much of a problem, if there are a whole bunch of statements, you have to figure out which ones belong logically in the else, and which ones should be run regardless whether the eval block failed. If you start off the else to begin with - or rather, if you use that as a habit, you won't have such problems. Having the else block is more of an engineering issue than a semantic one.

Abigail