Re: Useless/Interesting Error Messages

[itub]

I'm guilty of that one. I often have something like this:

if ($x == 1) {
    # do something
} elsif ($x == 2) {
    # do something else
} else {
    confess "should't be here!"
}

The idea is that I'm assuming that the subroutine got called with the right $x, but I leave that exception just in case.

[wazoox]

reminds me of some of my code :

else    {
# we should extract the data to some temporary space 
# and migrate it as we can
# for now we just fail gracefully... :(
&ExitOnError( $WarningMes.="[$$] FATAL : can't migrate (missing featur
+e!\n", $rows{JOBID});
}

Yeah, some day I'll have to write that missing part ;)