I'm not bothered in the least by having a 'redundant' path in my code of the form:

if(1) {
  $obj->method();
} else {
  print STDERR "False is true, War is peace and slavery is freedom.  W
+e should never have reached this condition.\n";
  die;
}
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Somewhere among all those Best Practices articles I've read, I picked up the habit of never writing a conditional without an else clause. I can elsif my way through lots of potential logical branches, but if I fail to code some exception throwing into a final else branch of the dispatch code, I will never know if I truly covered all the bases.

I tried this '100%' exercise with a module last year, and got coverage of over 90%, most of the uncovered execution paths were along the lines of the example above.

-- Hugh