On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:18:51AM -0600, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Daisuke Maki wrote:
>
> > > Can't this be done with the @CARP_NOT variable?
> >
> > Hmmm, I was trying to do this:
> >
> > sub on_fail {
> > my($class, $input) = @_;
> > local @Carp::CARP_NOT = qw( PKGS ... );
> > croak $input;
> > }
> >
> > But somehow the messages where unaltered, so now I look at Carp.pm from
> > my perl 5.8.3, and I see the following:
> >
> > sub shortmess { # Short-circuit &longmess if called via multiple packages
> > { local $@; require Carp::Heavy; } # XXX fix require to not clear [EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]
> > # Icky backwards compatibility wrapper. :-(
> > my $call_pack = caller();
> > local @CARP_NOT = caller(); # <<< RIGHT HERE
> > shortmess_heavy(@_);
> > }
> >
> > Hmph. local @CARP_NOT = caller()?
> > It's overriding @CARP_NOT regardless of what the caller has done...?
> >
> > Dave, mind if I just fall back to what I initially proposed?
>
> Sure, that's fine. Looks like Carp is a bit broken.
That bit sets @Carp::CARP_NOT. In your code you should be setting
@Your::Module::CARP_NOT. It's intended to be set just once, like
@ISA, not just before calling carp.
