Michael Small wrote on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:09:48PM -0400: > 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?
Well, you want to catch it and you need to have a mechanism that allows you to run assorted cleanups as you race up the call stack. So that your program can continue to run undamaged no matter how often this happens. Presumably Error.pm does all that in perl5 now, but it came later than my Perl heyday (and I still have the function argument issue). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[email protected]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
