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Chapter 11. Warnings > Item 101. Use die to generate exceptions
Item 101. Use die to generate exceptions
Some people have habits left over from the old C-programmer style, where they return a success code after every function. For instance, to signal an error from a subroutine, they might return undef:
sub do_work {
my $task = shift;
if ( $task < 0 ) {
return; # error, returning undef
}
...;
}
