could you please elaborate what you mean?

  DB<37> eval { 1/0 } or print "<$@>"
<Illegal division by zero at (eval 46)[c:/Strawberry/perl/lib/perl5db.
+pl:738] line 2.
>
  DB<38>
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edit

Probably you are talking about the kind of non-error "message" exceptions , e.g. thrown by iterators like in Python???

I think the distinction being made is maybe that in (say) Java trying to print on a closed filehandle object would throw an IOException which your code would be required to handle, whereas perl  -E 'close(STDOUT);say qq{FOOP}' will run (producing no output but also not printing any sort of error (although you could check the return from say and print $!)).

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Of course if you "use warnings;", you will see the "print() on closed filehandle STDOUT" warning.

Actually I think I had the right intuition with Python.

They use exceptions for non-fatal communications like in

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/112463/why-do-iterators-in-python-raise-an-exception

Cheers Rolf
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ok, so you found an exception. Well, kinda. There's no IO library function that corresponds to division.

Anyway, the point stands: Where other languages might use exception, Perl primarily returns false on error.

Update: Clearer wording

So you were only talking about IO and meant the lack of default to autodie?

Wasn't obvious to me.

Cheers Rolf
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