I looked into that Carp's options, and also took some private messages into account, and I am just going to fork much earlier in my code, and run all the code that can throw fatal errors in the child process, and report it all the same way.

Basically I have to report when the files being analyzed cannot be found in a way that the user understands. Carp doesn't do this as nicely as I can, so I am going to stop using it at this point except for debugging initial syntax errors.

Thanks for the wisdom!