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Tuesday January 11, 2005

08:56 PM

[ #22667 ]

I have no idea why I wrote "die() is the new goto()" on a PostIt and then lefft it on my corkboard for three months, but there it is.

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Die provides no context (Score:1)

by ajtaylor (1283)

IMHO, die is not very useful because it provides very little context - just an error message and the line that has the die() call. Stack traces ala confess() are invaluable when debugging a complex app.
As to whether this makes die() qualify as the next goto(), I don't know. :-)

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Re: (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

Probably in relation to the oft-mentioned assertions that exceptions can be abused like GOTO, which is a topic in those programming worlds where exceptions are more widely used than in Perl.
comefrom() (Score:1)

by pelagic (5141)

If "die()is the new goto()" what would in be the new comefrom() then in your opinion?