Michael Small wrote: > > Martin Cracauer <[email protected]> writes: > > > Also, lack of exception handling was a more annoying thing that drove > > away people from Perl, from my observation. > > You (they?) don't count eval { die } as exception handling? Or was > this an earlier version they left?
Not really, no. The key problem with Perl's "exceptions" is that a thrown exception value can be almost anything. This is cool enough when all of the code is "your" code -- controlled by one set of people at least -- and you throw whatever makes sense to you. But consider what happens when you try to integrate a variety of modules and codebases, each of which throws something different -- you wind up with a muck of code that examines the value to determine whose exception it is, so you can determine if you want to handle it or re-throw it. Perl's exception handling is far closer to that of C -- setjmp/longjmp -- than that of Java et al. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
