In this case there is no other sensible error message so why is die "$!"; what I mean when I mean die $!; ? Why no t die "Sensible error message $!"; ?
Well perhaps for a single debugging line, it doesn't matter too much, but consider a program where endless things can and do go wrong. Peppering your script with
Consider this was a 14 +/- line script with one die statement as I'd pasted in almost each reply when changes were made to accommodate suggestions. So again, the problem was not caused by
die $!; needing to be die "$!";
(like was mentioned)
Which was the point of the line of mine you quoted above :)
The point of my statement was to correct something that was said that could potentially hinder someone reading it's progress due to the inaccuracy of it, namely that the error I was seeing was because I hadn't double quoted $!, which is horribly inaccurate and clueless ;p
Almost as bad as saying one has the wrong shebang line when perl is what is doing the die() several lines into processing the script...
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