@Hercynium : I agree completely with your argument...

2010-07-19T01:55:29.074+12:00

@Hercynium : I agree completely with your arguments =). I'm aware of TryCatch, but without the standard exception library, I feel its applicable scope is largely limited. :(

I was considering something akin to ( or using ) Moose Roles would be handy, because then you could munge one exception to represent a variety of compatible causes.

When I say "Exception Driven", I more or less mean "Actually using Actual exception objects to do something practical every now and then", but I couldn't think of a simpler more expressive way to say it that way. I didn't mean to imply that Exceptions were the *core* concept of the development style =)

Thanks for feedback.

It seems like you want to spend some time with Try...

2010-07-19T01:39:23.779+12:00

It seems like you want to spend some time with TryCatch. It's got all the functionality you speak of, except the "standard exception library"

However, I can certainly see the value in having such a thing, especially if your applications exceptions can be 'decorated' with standard exceptions, rather than a strict inheritance hierarchy. (for example, a ConfigLoadError exception with a FileNotFound exception attached to it. In another case it could have attached an InvalidData exception...)

If I may make a suggestion though - the description "Exception Driven Perl" makes me cringe. I have seen horrible, horrible abuse of exceptions in other languages, and to think that a language should be "exception driven" seems just plain bad. Code should never be written with the expectation that it will be driven by its exceptions. They are, after all, called *exceptions* for a reason! :) IMO, what we need are better and more consistent means of making those exceptions as useful as possible.

I'm guessing what you really mean is that you want more robust, standard ways of having and using exceptions in Perl - and that in itself is something we can both agree on heartily!

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@Hercynium : I agree completely with your argument...

It seems like you want to spend some time with Try...