Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > What's wrong with just throwing an exception (as in "die") when you
> > find the right hit?
>
> I dunno... die() and exceptions usually indicate a failure of some
> sort--not success.
Throwing an exception is (imho) the perfect way to "abort" the find.
As long as you catch the exception, its semantics are entirely
up to you.
> There ought to be a way (or maybe more than one)
> to tell File::Find to stop.
There already is a perfect one. Why another?
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John Porter
Science class should not end in tragedy.
