In <LAW2-F99Wr81nn9RQAO00003271@hotmail.com>, "Ben Tilly" writes: :Feedback? Comments? It isn't clear to me why you want to kill $Carp::CarpLevel, though I read your email through a couple of times to try and understand this. I regularly use the moral equivalent of: local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Carp::CarpLevel + 1; .. in diagnostic functions. I've also never particularly understood why it wasn't documented. HugoThread Previous