NAME

ACME::Error - Never have boring errors again!

SYNOPSIS

use ACME::Error SHOUT;

warn "Warning"; # WARNING!

DESCRIPTION

ACME::Error is a front end to Perl error styles. $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} are intercepted. Backends are pluggable. Choose a backend by specifying it when you use ACME::Error SomeStyle;

Writing Backends

Writing backends is easy. See ACME::Error::SHOUT for a simple example. Basically your backend needs to be in the ACME::Error namespace and defines just two subroutines, warn_handler and die_handler. The arguments passed to your subroutine are the same as those passed to the signal handlers, see perlvar for more info on that. You are expected to return what you want to be warned or died.

You can also run use an import function. All arguments passed to ACME::Error after the style to use will be passed to the backend.

AUTHOR

Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Casey R. West <casey@geeknest.com>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl(1).