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Re: How to handle Errors?by McMahon (Chaplain) |
on Apr 05, 2004 at 16:49 UTC ( [id://342686]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Good for you for thinking ahead! (I test software for a living, we appreciate people who write good error handling.)
The sort-of-classical way to to do this is: Make sure each subroutine (or object) returns a particular code depending on whether it completed properly or had a particular error. Check the completion code in the main body of the program as each sub or object completes its work. If it is an error code, call the error-handling sub or object. In the error-handling routine, re-use as many error codes as possible: for instance, error 42 could be "file $var not found". The error handling code would report "file critical.file not found in subroutine foo." or something like that. Note that I believe Perl will do a lot of this for you, if you check for exceptions at sane places in the code. If you get a first pass at error-handling, I'd like to encourage you to post it here, because I'd like to see what you come up with.
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