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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-05-01 20:25:17 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-05-01 20:25:17 +0000
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Add a BUGS section to Fatal.pm, see bug #38790
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28040
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@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ values are ignored. For example
# not checked, so error raises an exception
close FH;
+=head1 BUGS
+
+You should not fatalize functions that are called in list context, because this
+module tests whether a function has failed by testing the boolean truth of its
+return value in scalar context.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Lionel Cons (CERN).