Thanks again, vladb. This makes sense to me. Although I think you could simplify the usage of the standard Perl error handling from your example, by the time you really made it easy, you would probably end up writing pretty much what you did in your exception-handling routine. :-)

Of course, this need/advantage is closely tied to how the program is structured; using a paradigm where nested 'exceptions' and structures exist requires handlers for those exceptions, right?

Impossible Robot