Re: Python or Perl for a Debian maintainance project?

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> a second problem is that eval{} catches everything. Usually, that's
> not what you want to do.

That's (sometimes) why the 

eval { ... }; 
die $@ if $@ !~ //; 

or similar construct comes into play. Moreover, most of the errors
where the code shouldn't die are related to various forms of use
strict; which can be turned off using the appropriate pragma. [But
discussing exception handling in perl is much easier if there's a
specific example in mind.]


Don Armstrong

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