X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FCarp.pm;h=c0ffb9c5916b00a4e832f4c4d22011596c4cdb80;hb=bc0bedcc9a054d550e68cd3ebd606b073b4151f7;hp=ea7cd05efcf1141df777d05b1a81fc068899c7c1;hpb=29ddba3bfaa890fa4ba09cd9e59d0dd375d96279;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/lib/Carp.pm b/lib/Carp.pm index ea7cd05..c0ffb9c 100644 --- a/lib/Carp.pm +++ b/lib/Carp.pm @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ package Carp; -our $VERSION = '1.04'; + +our $VERSION = '1.05'; # this file is an utra-lightweight stub. The first time a function is # called, Carp::Heavy is loaded, and the real short/longmessmess_jmp # subs are installed -# $MaxEvalLen, $Verbose -# are supposed to default to 0, but undef should be close enough - -$CarpLevel = 0; -$MaxArgLen = 64; # How much of each argument to print. 0 = all. -$MaxArgNums = 8; # How many arguments to print. 0 = all. +our $MaxEvalLen = 0; +our $Verbose = 0; +our $CarpLevel = 0; +our $MaxArgLen = 64; # How much of each argument to print. 0 = all. +our $MaxArgNums = 8; # How many arguments to print. 0 = all. require Exporter; -@ISA = ('Exporter'); -@EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp); -@EXPORT_OK = qw(cluck verbose longmess shortmess); -@EXPORT_FAIL = qw(verbose); # hook to enable verbose mode +our @ISA = ('Exporter'); +our @EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp); +our @EXPORT_OK = qw(cluck verbose longmess shortmess); +our @EXPORT_FAIL = qw(verbose); # hook to enable verbose mode # if the caller specifies verbose usage ("perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl") # then the following method will be called by the Exporter which knows @@ -37,3 +37,160 @@ sub carp { warn shortmess @_ } sub cluck { warn longmess @_ } 1; +__END__ + +=head1 NAME + +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 + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + + 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"); + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +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. + +You can also alter the way the output and logic of C works, by +changing some global variables in the C namespace. See the +section on C below. + +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: + +=over 4 + +=item 1. + +Any call from a package to itself is safe. + +=item 2. + +Packages claim that there won't be errors on calls to or from +packages explicitly marked as safe by inclusion in @CARP_NOT, or +(if that array is empty) @ISA. The ability to override what +@ISA says is new in 5.8. + +=item 3. + +The trust in item 2 is transitive. If A trusts B, and B +trusts C, then A trusts C. So if you do not override @ISA +with @CARP_NOT, then this trust relationship is identical to, +"inherits from". + +=item 4. + +Any call from an internal Perl module is safe. (Nothing keeps +user modules from marking themselves as internal to Perl, but +this practice is discouraged.) + +=item 5. + +Any call to Carp is safe. (This rule is what keeps it from +reporting the error where you call carp/croak/shortmess.) + +=back + +=head2 Forcing a Stack Trace + +As a debugging aid, you can force Carp to treat a croak as a confess +and a carp as a cluck across I 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 C in the PERL5OPT +environment variable. + +Alternately, you can set the global variable C<$Carp::Verbose> to true. +See the C section below. + +=head1 GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=head2 $Carp::CarpLevel + +This variable determines how many call frames are to be skipped when +reporting where an error occurred on a call to one of C's +functions. For example: + + $Carp::CarpLevel = 1; + sub bar { .... or _error('Wrong input') } + sub _error { Carp::carp(@_) } + +This would make Carp report the error as coming from C's caller, +rather than from C<_error>'s caller, as it normally would. + +Defaults to C<0>. + +=head2 $Carp::MaxEvalLen + +This variable determines how many characters of a string-eval are to +be shown in the output. Use a value of C<0> to show all text. + +Defaults to C<0>. + +=head2 $Carp::MaxArgLen + +This variable determines how many characters of each argument to a +function to print. Use a value of C<0> to show the full length of the +argument. + +Defaults to C<64>. + +=head2 $Carp::MaxArgNums + +This variable determines how many arguments to each function to show. +Use a value of C<0> to show all arguments to a function call. + +Defaults to C<8>. + +=head2 $Carp::Verbose + +This variable makes C use the C function at all times. +This effectively means that all calls to C become C and +all calls to C become C. + +Note, this is analogous to using C. + +Defaults to C<0>. + +=head1 BUGS + +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. +