Date: 10/04/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: no keywords

sub if_err_die {
   my $err = shift;
   die($err) if ($err);
}


this is Perl code which has no other purpose than masking the original sources of error messages. so far as I can tell its only value is the generation of consulting work.

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