Re: novice 'die' help requested

In my experience, you shouldn't pass $@ to functions. Pass a copy of it instead

log_error( "$@" );
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Re^2: novice 'die' help requested by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Jan 11, 2007 at 23:21 UTC
... Ofcourse, `$@` gets stringafied here, so if it is an Exception object (or, if you want to be perverse, a hashref) it'll get magled, with differing degress of success. (Although most exceptions stringify nicely, so that you can read if they're uncaught, and reach your terminal.) perhaps `log_error( my $something_else = $@ )` to copy it? ... `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: novice 'die' help requested
by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Jan 11, 2007 at 23:21 UTC

... Ofcourse, $@ gets stringafied here, so if it is an Exception object (or, if you want to be perverse, a hashref) it'll get magled, with differing degress of success. (Although most exceptions stringify nicely, so that you can read if they're uncaught, and reach your terminal.)

perhaps log_error( my $something_else = $@ ) to copy it? ...

@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;

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