From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-02-20T21:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: how to raise warning?

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:53:21 +0900,
Robert Klemme wrote in [ruby-talk:93233]:
> > My suggestion: Two names. Call the first one "warning" (the kind of
> > warning that Ruby gives us) and the second one "warn" (a simple verb
> > that just prints to stderr).
> 
> I like the suggestion, but I'm not fully satisfied with the naming.  They
> are too similar and thus too easy to confuse.  Trying to think of
> something better...  What about leaving "warn" as it is (i.e. no info on
> location) and one of "report" or "source_warn" for a message with file and
> line info?  This way, no existing code would be broken and we had a clear
> naming distinction.

Doesn't perl use carp or croak for it?

-- 
Nobu Nakada