Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-27 Thread Peter Scott
At 10:20 AM 8/27/00 -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: >I'd usually rather just say > > my $fh = open $filename; > >and be done with it, but then I'd always "use Fatal qw(:all);". But >if I'd done such a "use Fatal", and then wanted to catch one, I sure >hope I wouldn't have such a rabid try/catc

Re: On the case for exception-based error handling.

2000-08-27 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-08-22-15:13:23 Peter Scott: > I too would rather say > > my $fh = open $filename or die "Couldn't copy source: $!" > > than > > my $fh; try { $fh = open $filename } catch { die "Couldn't copy > source: ", $@->syserr } I'd usually rather just say my $fh = open $