Re: Treating filehandles like strings

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:51:25PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:12:27 -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> >and I'll breathe a big sigh of relief when I
> >can just add "use Fatal qw(:all);" to the top of all my perl scripts
> >and forever more ditch all the " or die ..." clauses.
> 
> Yes! Yes yes yes! Let's get rid of "open ... or die"!

I sincerely hope you really mean "Let's make ``open() or die''
optional"  Exceptions should be integrated into the language but Ye
Olde "returns undef on error" should still be available as well.


	try { $fh = open("foo") } catch { die "Oops" }	# pick your syntax
	$fh = open("foo") or die "Oops";

I'd expect either to work.

-Scott
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