On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:48:43 -0500 Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would not be very pleasant if most things die() on error because > errors are normal and usually we don't want robust programs to crash > when something innocent fails, nor do we want to have to wrap every > error that we can recover from with eval blocks (i.e., similar to > try...catch in other languages) to handle errors. `die` is Perl's way to throw exceptions. Avoiding `die` is avoid exceptions. -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/