On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:32:26 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>I sincerely hope you really mean "Let's make ``open() or die''
>optional" Exceptions should be integrated into the language but Ye
>Olde "returns undef on error" should still be available as well.
>
>
> try { $fh = open("foo") } catch { die "Oops" } # pick your syntax
> $fh = open("foo") or die "Oops";
You may hope all you want. But what I gathered, and what I liked a lot,
was the idea that:
use Fatal;
$fh = open("foo.txt");
would act pretty much as if you had written:
$fh = open("foo.txt") or die "Can't open file \"foo.txt\": $!";
but for every file you open. Writing all those "do or die"'s get pretty
tiresome after a while.
If you don't want a failed open() to be fatal, you could do:
use Fatal; # maybe the default, in, say, perl7?
{
no Fatal;
$fh = open("foo.txt");
}
or in an eval BLOCK, for all I care.
--
Bart.
