diff --git a/lib/Plack/Middleware/Lint.pm b/lib/Plack/Middleware/Lint.pm
index 77656d84d..3c01df050 100644
--- a/lib/Plack/Middleware/Lint.pm
+++ b/lib/Plack/Middleware/Lint.pm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ sub wrap {
     my($self, $app) = @_;
 
     unless (ref $app eq 'CODE' or overload::Method($app, '&{}')) {
-        Carp::croak("PSGI app should be a code reference: ", (defined $app ? $app : "undef"));
+        die("PSGI app should be a code reference: ", (defined $app ? $app : "undef"));
     }
 
     $self->SUPER::wrap($app);
@@ -28,58 +28,58 @@ sub call {
 sub validate_env {
     my ($self, $env) = @_;
     unless ($env->{'REQUEST_METHOD'}) {
-        Carp::croak('Missing env param: REQUEST_METHOD');
+        die('Missing env param: REQUEST_METHOD');
     }
     unless ($env->{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ /^[A-Z]+$/) {
-        Carp::croak("Invalid env param: REQUEST_METHOD($env->{REQUEST_METHOD})");
+        die("Invalid env param: REQUEST_METHOD($env->{REQUEST_METHOD})");
     }
     unless (defined($env->{'SCRIPT_NAME'})) { # allows empty string
-        Carp::croak('Missing mandatory env param: SCRIPT_NAME');
+        die('Missing mandatory env param: SCRIPT_NAME');
     }
     unless (defined($env->{'PATH_INFO'})) { # allows empty string
-        Carp::croak('Missing mandatory env param: PATH_INFO');
+        die('Missing mandatory env param: PATH_INFO');
     }
     unless (defined($env->{'SERVER_NAME'})) {
-        Carp::croak('Missing mandatory env param: SERVER_NAME');
+        die('Missing mandatory env param: SERVER_NAME');
     }
     unless ($env->{'SERVER_NAME'} ne '') {
-        Carp::croak('SERVER_NAME must not be empty string');
+        die('SERVER_NAME must not be empty string');
     }
     unless (defined($env->{'SERVER_PORT'})) {
-        Carp::croak('Missing mandatory env param: SERVER_PORT');
+        die('Missing mandatory env param: SERVER_PORT');
     }
     unless ($env->{'SERVER_PORT'} ne '') {
-        Carp::croak('SERVER_PORT must not be empty string');
+        die('SERVER_PORT must not be empty string');
     }
     unless (!defined($env->{'SERVER_PROTOCOL'}) || $env->{'SERVER_PROTOCOL'} =~ m{^HTTP/1.\d$}) {
-        Carp::croak('Invalid SERVER_PROTOCOL');
+        die('Invalid SERVER_PROTOCOL');
     }
     for my $param (qw/version url_scheme input errors multithread multiprocess/) {
         unless (exists $env->{"psgi.$param"}) {
-            Carp::croak("Missing psgi.$param");
+            die("Missing psgi.$param");
         }
     }
     unless (ref($env->{'psgi.version'}) eq 'ARRAY') {
-        Carp::croak('psgi.version should be ArrayRef');
+        die('psgi.version should be ArrayRef');
     }
     unless (scalar(@{$env->{'psgi.version'}}) == 2) {
-        Carp::croak('psgi.version should contain 2 elements');
+        die('psgi.version should contain 2 elements');
     }
     unless ($env->{'psgi.url_scheme'} =~ /^https?$/) {
-        Carp::croak('psgi.version should be "http" or "https"');
+        die('psgi.version should be "http" or "https"');
     }
     if ($env->{"psgi.version"}->[1] == 1) { # 1.1
         for my $param (qw(streaming nonblocking run_once)) {
             unless (exists $env->{"psgi.$param"}) {
-                Carp::croak("Missing psgi.$param");
+                die("Missing psgi.$param");
             }
         }
     }
     if ($env->{HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE}) {
-        Carp::croak('HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE should not exist');
+        die('HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE should not exist');
     }
     if ($env->{HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH}) {
-        Carp::croak('HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH should not exist');
+        die('HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH should not exist');
     }
 }
 
@@ -94,10 +94,8 @@ sub is_possibly_fh {
 sub validate_res {
     my ($self, $res, $streaming) = @_;
 
-    my $croak = $streaming ? \&Carp::confess : \&Carp::croak;
-
     unless (ref($res) and ref($res) eq 'ARRAY' || ref($res) eq 'CODE') {
-        $croak->('Response should be array ref or code ref');
+        die('Response should be array ref or code ref');
     }
 
     if (ref $res eq 'CODE') {
@@ -105,34 +103,34 @@ sub validate_res {
     }
 
     unless (@$res == 3 || ($streaming && @$res == 2)) {
-        $croak->('Response needs to be 3 element array, or 2 element in streaming');
+        die('Response needs to be 3 element array, or 2 element in streaming');
     }
 
     unless ($res->[0] =~ /^\d+$/ && $res->[0] >= 100) {
-        $croak->('Status code needs to be an integer greater than or equal to 100');
+        die('Status code needs to be an integer greater than or equal to 100x');
     }
 
     unless (ref $res->[1] eq 'ARRAY') {
-        $croak->('Headers needs to be an array ref');
+        die('Headers needs to be an array ref');
     }
 
     my @copy = @{$res->[1]};
     unless (@copy % 2 == 0) {
-        $croak->('The number of response headers needs to be even, not odd');
+        die('The number of response headers needs to be even, not odd');
     }
 
     while(my($key, $val) = splice(@copy, 0, 2)) {
         if (lc $key eq 'status') {
-            $croak->('Response headers MUST NOT contain a key named Status');
+            die('Response headers MUST NOT contain a key named Status');
         }
         if ($key =~ /[:\r\n]|[-_]$/) {
-            $croak->('Response headers MUST NOT contain a key with : or newlines, or that end in - or _');
+            die('Response headers MUST NOT contain a key with : or newlines, or that end in - or _');
         }
         unless ($key =~ /^[a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z\-_]*$/) {
-            $croak->('Response headers MUST consist only of letters, digits, _ or - and MUST start with a letter');
+            die('Response headers MUST consist only of letters, digits, _ or - and MUST start with a letter');
         }
         if ($val =~ /[\000-\037]/) {
-            $croak->('Response headers MUST NOT contain characters below octal \037');
+            die('Response headers MUST NOT contain characters below octal \037');
         }
     }
 
@@ -142,11 +140,11 @@ sub validate_res {
             Plack::Util::is_real_fh($res->[2]) ||
             is_possibly_fh($res->[2]) ||
             (blessed($res->[2]) && $res->[2]->can('getline'))) {
-        $croak->('Body should be an array ref or filehandle');
+        die('Body should be an array ref or filehandle');
     }
 
     if (ref $res->[2] eq 'ARRAY' && grep _is_really_utf8($_), @{$res->[2]}) {
-        $croak->('Body must be bytes and should not contain wide characters (UTF-8 strings).');
+        die('Body must be bytes and should not contain wide characters (UTF-8 strings).');
     }
 
     return $res;
@@ -187,6 +185,31 @@ web server that implements the PSGI interface.
 This middleware is enabled by default when you run plackup or other
 launcher tools with the default environment I<development> value.
 
+=head1 DEBUGGING
+
+Because of how this middleware works, it may not be easy to debug Lint
+errors when you encounter one, unless you're writing a PSGI web server
+or a framework.
+
+For example, when you're an application developer (user of some
+framework) and see errors like:
+
+  Body should be an array ref or filehandle at lib/Plack/Middleware/Lint.pm line XXXX
+
+there's no clue about which line of I<your application> produces that
+error.
+
+We're aware of the issue, and have a plan to spit out more helpful
+errors to diagnose the issue. But until then, currently there are some
+workarounds to make this easier. For now, the easiest one would be to
+enable L<Plack::Middleware::REPL> outside of the Lint middleware,
+like:
+
+  plackup -e 'enable "REPL"; enable "Lint"' app.psgi
+
+so that the Lint errors are caught by the REPL shell, where you can
+inspect all the variables in the response.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa