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Re^4: eval to replace die?by mjscott2702 (Pilgrim) |
on Oct 05, 2010 at 08:33 UTC ( [id://863540]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Wow, I opened up a whole can of worms there. What I was trying to point out was simply this - sometimes, it doesn't matter WHY something went wrong, just to die gracefully with some informative message e.g. File Not Found.
In the case of a simple script that is trying to parse a file that it can't access (permissions, missing file etc), there is nothing to recover from - give the user some clue as to what went wrong, and terminate. Obviously, there are situations where the script/application/program shouldn't exit - trap the error, display the error message, log it and continue. The use of eval, catching exceptions, trapping signals etc is the choice of the programmer - TMTOWTDI. And yes, that might mean some fuzzy string comparisons.... :)
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