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Greetings,
Im using Cache::Memcached in my script. The following call to stats() will throw warnings if the memcached server is not running:

use warnings;
use Cache::Memcached;
my $memd = new Cache::Memcached {servers => ["$host:$port"]};
my $stats = $memd->stats();
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I want to trap such warnings as errors (so I can eval/die in my code), hence I tried this in my code:

use warnings FATAL => 'all';
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Since, the above pragma will not "leak across files" according to perllexwarn, Im forced to do this:

 $SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { die $_[0]};
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not that anything is wrong with setting up signal handlers, I want to know if I can somehow use the warnings pragma to achieve the same. Thanks.

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