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  • How is returning undef better than dying? It sounds like a step backward to me. Is there a reason for that choice?
    • A die would indicate an exception, something we don't expect to happen.

      In fact, File::HomeDir already has a number of these in it. Generally, it's things like failing to find a directory where it is expecting one. If someone hacked their OS X directories to something unusual, you might see it.

      However, as I push outwards to try and cover more platform and situations, I'm finding that lack of a home directory is much much more common than I had thought (or than the original author thought as well I suspect).

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