I assume that 'fatal.pm' is a new pragma.
1) What (if anything) does it do, aside from turning 'fail' into a fatal exception when used outside a regex? 2) Do you need to use it before you can (usefully) use 'fail' INSIDE a regex? (I would assume not, but thought I'd check.) Dave On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Dave Storrs wrote: > > Just to be sure I understood: you meant that (A) yes, you can use > > fail in a subroutine outside a regex, and (B) if you do, it is no > > different from die. Is that correct? > > Depends on the caller's use of "use fatal". If they don't use fatal, > it returns undef. > > Larry > >