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Oct 26Death of the Auth-Er
by in CodeSOD on 2026-11-03When writing Perl, it's not unusual to want to die. The die function ends your Perl program with an error string, and you'll often see code like: die "My error" unless $i > 5 or die "Other error" if check(), because Perl just loves the backwards conditionals. What's even more fun with die is how it behaves with eval blocks, so it doesn't always kill your program, sometimes it is how you pass error strings back out of sections of your program.
And poor Bobby has inherited some Perl that just really loves to die.