On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:31:22PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:20:33PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > It's rare because in perl, you *very* rarely need anything as complex > > as a full exception. Most of the time you don't need exceptions at all > > - return values are quite adequete (because (a) you can return any > > arbitrarily complicated object, and (b) you have undef for error > > conditions). > > There's nothing magic about perl that makes it such that you don't need more > featureful error handling. Those features are not unique to perl by a wide > margin; in fact they are quite widespread. C/C++. Languages with both of these features do indeed not normally have any need for exceptions. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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