NAME Carp::Always::AndRefs - Warns and dies noisily with stack backtraces SYNOPSIS use Carp::Always::AndRefs; makes every "warn()" and "die()" complains loudly in the calling package and elsewhere. More often used on the command line: perl -MCarp::Always::AndRefs script.pl Also includes Devel::Confess as an alias: perl -MDevel::Confess script.pl or perl -d:Confess script.pl DESCRIPTION This module is meant as a debugging aid. It can be used to make a script complain loudly with stack backtraces when warn()ing or die()ing. Here are how stack backtraces produced by this module looks: # it works for explicit die's and warn's $ perl -MCarp::Always::AndRefs -e 'sub f { die "arghh" }; sub g { f }; g' arghh at -e line 1. main::f() called at -e line 1 main::g() called at -e line 1 # it works for interpreter-thrown failures $ perl -MCarp::Always::AndRefs -w -e 'sub f { $a = shift; @a = @$a };' \ -e 'sub g { f(undef) }; g' Use of uninitialized value in array dereference at -e line 1. main::f('undef') called at -e line 2 main::g() called at -e line 2 In the implementation, the "Carp" module does the heavy work, through "longmess()". The actual implementation sets the signal hooks $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} to emit the stack backtraces. Oh, by the way, "carp" and "croak" when requiring/using the "Carp" module are also made verbose, behaving like "cluck" and "confess", respectively. Stack traces will also be included for exception objects and non-object references. METHODS import( @options ) Enables stack traces and sets options. Options can be prefixed with no_ to disable them. "objects" Enable attaching stack traces to exception objects. Defaults to on. "hacks" Load the Carp::Always::AndRefs::Hacks module to use built in stack traces on supported exception types. CONFIGURATION %Carp::Always::AndRefs::NoTrace Classes or roles added to this hash will not have stack traces attached to them. This is useful for exception classes that provide their own stack traces, or classes that don't cope well with being re-blessed. If Carp::Always::AndRefs::Hacks is loaded, it will automatically add its supported exception types to this hash. Default Entries: Throwable::Error Provides a stack trace Moose::Error::Default Provides a stack trace Ouch Conflicts with mechanism used to attach stack traces. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The idea, part of the code, and most of the documentation are taken from Carp::Always. SEE ALSO * Carp::Always * Carp * Acme::JavaTrace and Devel::SimpleTrace * Carp::Always::Color * Carp::Source::Always Please report bugs via CPAN RT http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Carp-Always-AndRefs. BUGS This module uses several ugly tricks to do its work and surely has bugs. * This module does not play well with other modules which fusses around with "warn", "die", $SIG{'__WARN__'}, $SIG{'__DIE__'}. AUTHORS * Graham Knop, * Adriano Ferreira, CONTRIBUTORS None yet. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2005-2013 the "AUTHORS" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above. LICENSE This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself. See .