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

[Tony Olekshy]

Glenn Linderman wrote:
> 
> Perl 5 doesn't have exceptions, which is precisely how it avoids this
> problem.

Perl 5 has exceptions.  my $x = 0; my $y = 1 / $x;  It avoids nothing,
which is we are always mixing return-based and exception-based failure
signalling.  This is not going to go away, and everyone likes that.

The discussion here is about how to do the case where you do want to
do exception-based failure signalling.  On that there seems to be
general agreement.

Yours, &c, Tony Olekshy