NAME Carp - alternative warn and die for modules DESCRIPTION The Carp routines are useful in your own modules because they act like die() or warn(), but with a message which is more likely to be useful to a user of your module. In the case of cluck, confess, and longmess that context is a summary of every call in the call-stack. For a shorter message you can use carp or croak which report the error as being from where your module was called. There is no guarantee that that is where the error was, but it is a good educated guess. You can also alter the way the output and logic of Carp works, by changing some global variables in the Carp namespace. INSTALLATION perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AUTHOR The Carp module first appeared in Larry Wall's perl 5.000 distribution. Since then it has been modified by several of the perl 5 porters. Andrew Main (Zefram) divested Carp into an independent distribution. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Larry Wall Copyright (C) 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.