Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

[Tom Christiansen]

>> I don't see how it gets more complicated if you really want to
>> ignore errors.  If you really want to ignore errors, you have to do
>> this in Perl 5 right now anyway, but you say eval { ... }; instead.

>     open ( FOO, "<$file" );

>ignores errors.

>    eval ( open ( FOO, "<$file" ));

>ignores fatalities.

>However, if non-fatal errors are returned via exceptions, then they
>become harder to ignore than return codes that report non-fatal errors.

Have all here please looked at

    use Fatal qw(:void open close);

yet?

thanks,

--tom