Here's a rather funky example taken from the perl docs (man perlsub) that may provide a worthwhile solution - 
sub try (&@) {
    my($try,$catch) = @_;
    eval { &$try };
    if ($@) {
        local $_ = $@;
        &$catch;
    }
}

sub catch (&) { $_[0] }

try {
    die "phooey";
} catch {
    /phooey/ and print "unphooey\n";
};

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This is simliar to a lot of the above posts, in that it eval()s and then handles any errors. Although it's not *exactly* the sub wrapper you were looking for, I think it's a very cool alternative (but then again I'm impressed by all things functional ;o)
HTH

broquaint

In reply to Re: Idomatic Handling of Subroutine Error by broquaint
in thread Idomatic Handling of Subroutine Error by dvergin

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