Re: $a in @b (RFC 199)

[Tom Christiansen]

>I find this urge to push exceptions everywhere quite sad.

Rather. 

Languages that have forgotten or dismissed error returns, turning
instead to exceptions for everything in an effort to make the code
"safer", tend in fact to produce code that is tedious and annoying.

Read the new K&P: "failing to open a file is *not* an exceptional
occurrence" (paraphrased from memory).

--tom