Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles

[Steve Simmons]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:54:35PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > If we get a good-looking exception throwing/catching mechanism and
> > syntax, this may not matter.

>    try {
>       java
>    }
>    catch (Exception e) {
>       think again
>    }

I like this.  It's perlish in that it builds off of a well-defined and
proven mechanism, and it even *looks* perlish.