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;
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 and confess that context is a summary of every
-call in the call-stack. For a shorter message you can use carp
-or croak which try to report the error as being from where
+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 the shorter message works.
-What it does is search the call-stack for a function call stack where
+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
=item 5.
Any call to Carp is safe. (This rule is what keeps it from
-reporting the error where you call carp or croak.)
+reporting the error where you call carp/croak/shortmess.)
=back
require Exporter;
@ISA = ('Exporter');
@EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp);
-@EXPORT_OK = qw(cluck);
-
-# we handle verbose usage ("perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl") ourselves
-# and then erase all traces of this call so that Exporter doesn't
-# know that we have been here. BTW subclasses shouldn't try to
-# do anything useful with 'verbose', including have that be their
-# name...
-sub import {
- if (grep 'verbose' eq $_, @_) {
- @_ = grep 'verbose' ne $_, @_;
- $Verbose = "verbose";
- }
- goto &Exporter::import;
+@EXPORT_OK = qw(cluck verbose longmess shortmess);
+@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
+# to do this thanks to @EXPORT_FAIL, above. $_[1] will contain the word
+# 'verbose'.
+
+sub export_fail {
+ shift;
+ $Verbose = shift if $_[0] eq 'verbose';
+ return @_;
}