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in reply to Re^4: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); (is compile-time)
in thread use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

And here's my experiment: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );

asfgafhafh

print "Hello";

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yields 
bash-2.05a$ perl test.pl
syntax error at test.pl line 7, near "asfgafhafh

print"
Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
bash-2.05a$

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...which is just lovely if you have command-line access, but doesn't do you a lick of good through a browser (you'll just get a Error 500) even though the syntax error occurs after the use.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

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Re^6: use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); (strange)
by tye (Sage) on Apr 10, 2003 at 16:02 UTC

    For me, that exact code results in: 

    Content-type: text/html

<H1>Software error:</H1>
<CODE>syntax error at - line 7, near &quot;asdfasefasdf

print&quot;
Execution of - aborted due to compilation errors.
</C0DE>
<P>
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error
+ message
and the time and date of the error.

[Thu Apr 10 09:01:20 2003] -: syntax error at - line 7, near "asfgafha
+fh
[Thu Apr 10 09:01:20 2003] -:
[Thu Apr 10 09:01:20 2003] -: print"
[Thu Apr 10 09:01:20 2003] -: Execution of - aborted due to compilatio
+n errors.

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    Perhaps you have a old/broken version of CGI::Carp? I'm using version 1.14.

                    - tye
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[d/l]
      Well I might have a NEW/broken version of CGI::Carp. ;-) I'm using CGI::Carp version 1.24 on Perl 5.6.1 on Linux. I'll see if I can figure out what's going... it was certainly nice getting that whole Compile/Runtime thing straightened out, though. Thanks!

      Gary Blackburn
      Trained Killer

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