Re: try/catch (Was: Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles)

[Graham Barr]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:25:49AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> How does 'it went wrong' know _which_ of the subs went wrong? For
> example:
> 
>   try {
>     open(file1);
>     open(file2);
>     open(file3);
>   } catch {
>     error("could not open one of the file(s)");
>   }
> 
> which is not very helpful to the user. And

$@ becomes an object, which can contain information about what went wrong.

Graham.