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

[email protected] (Glenn Linderman) Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:41:15 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.errors
Organization Glenn and Elaine Linderman, at home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Markus Peter wrote:

> I'm not sure though wether I like the usage of die to throw fatal
> exceptions vs. throw for possibly non-fatal exceptions, especially
> considering the fact that many modules currently use die for trivial stuff
> like reporting wrong parameters...

Once a (more appropriate than die) non-fatal throw/catch mechanism exists, the
use of die for non-fatal exceptions would hopefully wither away over time... and
if not, appropriate wrappers could be written.
--
Glenn
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