On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
> That is an understatement, but all the people involved have different
> ideas/needs etc..
Maybe we need a discussion forum for this work. I favor a
subscriber-post-only mailing list myself and I think it would be fairly
low traffic. Basically, just invite whoever's written exception code,
either as a base CPAN module (you, me, Pete Seibel?, Matt Sargent, that
guy who uploaded something called Exception.pm, Pete Jordan who's
working on this for the core).
> I have no problem with renaming Error and using some standard base classes.
> But if it is to be renamed I feel it should stay at the top level. ie If it's
> classes are Exception::* then the try/catch etc. should be in Exception.pm,
> or atleast avaliable via
>
> use Exception qw(try catch);
I strongly disagree. As try/catch is not built into Perl I really don't
feel that it should be considered the core of any exception model that
gets built. But that's why we need a discussion forum. There are people
who are interested in these things but we don't really talk to each other.
> PS: For those who were there and remember, last year's p5p meeting at the conf.
> I was (assigned ?) the task of getting error/exception objects into the perl
> core. Part of this was to define a base class structure etc..
See my above mention of a mailing list. I know Pete Jordan is working on
this (making it available from XS and such) so it would be nice if the
10-20 people who've gotten seriously interested in this could talk about
it.
-dave
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