G'day David, David Nicol wrote: > hopefully it goes without saying that the use of one of the > alternatives by a module that is using the other, or use of modules > that each use a different one, must be supported? That's supported right now, and there's no plans for it to change. ;) autodie/Fatal both make tweaks to the current package, but they don't touch anything beyond that. In the case of autodie, the tweaks to the current package are essentially invisible outside the current lexical scope, with the exception of system which has been discussed elsewhere. You can download the code, build it and play with it if you like. There's a download link from: http://github.com/pfenwick/autodie/tree/master/ that should get you the latest working code from my repository. If you're a git user, the same page should have the relevant info needed to clone the repository. Cheerio, Paul -- Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au> | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681