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> but it should still be used with caution, as the flow is much harder to follow - throwing an exception is just a goto in disguise!

IMHO from inside deeply nested routines you can only to create a report, which is a $SIG{__DIE__/__WARN__} in disguise.

Anything else is maintenance hell.

Exceptions - which are not necessarily errors - should be handled as close as possible/reasonable otherwise you get "global" programming where you need to handle non local events.

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