Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> Tony Olekshy writes:
>
> > Peter Scott wrote:
> > >
> > > An exception is an 'error'. That's already a vague concept.
> >
> > I'll say it's vague. There are certainly uses for an exception to
> > trigger non-local success, not an error at all. In fact, there are
> > whole programming techniques based on such uses. Just because most
> > of us usually use exceptions to handle errors, that doesn't mean
> > Perl should not support other uses.
>
> Ah, the 'Bloody hell it worked! That's exceptional' style of
> programming?
Yup. But I couldn't have said it better than you just did.
Yours, &c, Tony (TIMTOWTDI) Olekshy
