Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

[John Porter]

Sam Tregar wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, an unhandled exception in Java is death for the program.
> 
> Yup.  So all (potentially) exceptions are "fatal errors"?  Well, that
> definition fits "almost meaningless" pretty well, in my opinion!

Not exactly.  Java defines two clases of "throwables": 
Exceptions, which must be caught if declared to be thrown
(the standard class libraries throw a lot of these), and
Errors, which are not normally caught.
The latter includes signal-like conditions such as
VirtualMachineError, LinkageError, and ThreadDeath.

-- 
John Porter