RE: Completely Useless

in reply to Completely Useless

Hey, you know what'd be neat? To customize the error message. Sure, it's still just as useless, but that's okay. So here's the new version:

    package Silly::Die;
    use strict;
    use vars qw/$OUTPUT/;

    sub import {
        my $class  = shift;
        my $caller = caller;
        no strict 'refs';
        *{"${caller}::trying"} = \&{"${class}::trying"};
        $OUTPUT = shift if @_ && ref $_[0] eq "CODE";
    }

    sub trying { $OUTPUT ? $OUTPUT->($!) : $! }

    1;
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Usage is the same as before, but if you want an extra special output function, try this:

    use Silly::Die sub { qq(I died with: "@_") };
    open FILE, "foo" or die trying;
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Prints:

  I died with: "No such file or directory" at ./test.pl line 9.
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