in reply to Useless/Interesting Error Messages

I'm guilty of that one. I often have something like this: 
if ($x == 1) {
    # do something
} elsif ($x == 2) {
    # do something else
} else {
    confess "should't be here!"
}

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The idea is that I'm assuming that the subroutine got called with the right $x, but I leave that exception just in case.

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Re^2: Useless/Interesting Error Messages
by wazoox (Prior) on Mar 07, 2005 at 16:57 UTC
    reminds me of some of my code : 
    else    {
# we should extract the data to some temporary space 
# and migrate it as we can
# for now we just fail gracefully... :(
&ExitOnError( $WarningMes.="[$$] FATAL : can't migrate (missing featur
+e!\n", $rows{JOBID});
}

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    Yeah, some day I'll have to write that missing part ;)
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