TSa schreef: > Yes, I'm also all for unifying the concepts. But please > don't let us call it exception. Exception should be a > termination oriented (sub)concept. Some kind of scoped giving > up. [...] > In lack of a better word I use Event and we get > Event::Exception, Event::Control, Event::Warn and > possibly Event::Hint, Event::Log and Event::Fun :) > > The only drawback of choosing 'Event' might be that it > smells too GUIish for some? Or is that a feature? That is > we get Event::GUI::press, Event::GUI::scroll, Event::GUI::expose, > etc.
FSM etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_driven_finite_state_machine Running Perl code can be seen as an ATN (an FSM on steroids, says http://smc.sourceforge.net/SmcFaq.htm). An exception-handler can be allowed to pop more states than it is good for. -- Grtz, Ruud
