On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 12:05 PM, Mark Aisenberg wrote: > You cite CPAN modules as > a place to find examples of good style; my experience is that many CPAN > modules are poorly written, almost devoid of comments, hard-wired to > assume Unix, etc. One wonderful example of CPAN module idiocy is that > many of the modules 'die' on errors rather than trapping and returning > on them. How useful is that to a CGI programmer, e.g.?
Not necessarily a bad thing IF the exceptions are documented so that the caller knows what to expect, and can wrap the call in an eval. (But how often does this happen?) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
