At 09:04 AM 8/14/01 -0500, David Simcik wrote:
>I've been perusing the Camel book, the Cookbook, CGI Programming w/Perl, and
>Effective Perl for answers to this question, but have yet to find one or two
>definitive solutions. I've seen the standard die/eval() statements and the
>use of the various incarnations of Carp, but I have yet to see anyone say
>something along the lines of "this is the most common approach". I find
>myself longing for the consistency of try/catch blocks. Can anyone shed some
>light on the situation?
try/catch blocks will be in Perl 6.
If you want them in Perl 5, use the module Error.pm from CPAN. I do, and I
like it.
Some people think this is a needless embellishment on using die/eval, which
is what Error.pm turns try/catch into anyway. To each his/her own.
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