carp - warn of errors |
carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
cluck - warn of errors with stack backtrace (not exported by default)
croak - die of errors (from perspective of caller)
confess - die of errors with stack backtrace
shortmess - return the message that carp and croak produce
longmess - return the message that cluck and confess produce
use Carp; croak "We're outta here!";
use Carp qw(cluck); cluck "This is how we got here!";
print FH Carp::shortmess("This will have caller's details added"); print FH Carp::longmess("This will have stack backtrace added");
The Carp routines are useful in your own modules because
they act like die()
or warn(), but with a message which is more
likely to be useful to a user of your module. In the case of
cluck, confess, and longmess that context is a summary of every
call in the call-stack. For a shorter message you can use carp,
croak or shortmess which report the error as being from where
your module was called. There is no guarantee that that is where
the error was, but it is a good educated guess.
Here is a more complete description of how shortmess works. What it does is search the call-stack for a function call stack where it hasn't been told that there shouldn't be an error. If every call is marked safe, it then gives up and gives a full stack backtrace instead. In other words it presumes that the first likely looking potential suspect is guilty. Its rules for telling whether a call shouldn't generate errors work as follows:
As a debugging aid, you can force Carp to treat a croak as a confess and a carp as a cluck across all modules. In other words, force a detailed stack trace to be given. This can be very helpful when trying to understand why, or from where, a warning or error is being generated.
This feature is enabled by 'importing' the non-existent symbol 'verbose'. You would typically enable it by saying
perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl
or by including the string MCarp=verbose
in the PERL5OPT
environment variable.
The Carp routines don't handle exception objects currently.
If called with a first argument that is a reference, they simply
call die()
or warn(), as appropriate.
carp - warn of errors |