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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Mike Guy wrote:
> Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote
> > - my $mess = Carp::longmess(@_);
> > + my $mess = "@_";
> > + {
> > + package Carp; # Do not include us in the list
> > + eval {
> > + $mess = Carp::longmess(@_);
> > + };
> > + }
>
> Shouldn't the fallback be
>
> my $mess = join '', @_;
>
> ?
>
> And even that won't do the right thing with objects. You need something
> like
>
> my $mess = ref $_[0] ? $_[0] : join '', @_;
>
> Also, now that there is a fallback if Carp fails to load, can't we
> strike out the
>
> die(@_, "\nCannot print stack trace, load with -MCarp option to see stack")
>
> just above?
Patches welcome (on top of Ilya's, since that's in.)
>
> Mike Guy
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