Every now and again I see people on StackOverflow promote the use of autodie. But in the code here and elsewhere in the net I don't see autodie very often. Are there some disadvantages? Do I lose s...

The IO::File, IO::Socket::INET modules have some advantages over directly using perl's built-in IO functions, such as having explicit syntax to flush a handle. However, they seem to have some disa...

The autodie documentation hints that it is possible to use it for other functions than those built-ins which it can handle by default, but there are no clear examples how to do that in it. Specifi...

Why do I get after the "autodie" a different output? #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use 5.012; use utf8; use open ':encoding(utf-8)'; use open ':std'; open my $fh, '>', 'test.txt' or die $...

The Perl modules autodie and Fatal seem to be doing similar things. What are the reasons for using one in preference to the other?