In reply to my earlier node related to my cut at an OO-ish exception handling package, impossiblerobot had raised a series of deserving questions related to the need of using a OO-ish approach in place of an old and trusted eval/die mechanism for exception handling. Since (as usual) this innocent quest has led to a deeply nested thread (therefore hiding it from the praying minds of fellow monks) while leaving some questions unanswered (I've failed to handle them all on my own :), I thought it would be appropriate to repost the node here for general consideration.

So, the original question is (paraphrased from original question by impossiblerobot that could be found here):

What (other than making perl look like some other languages) does the use of OO-ish exception handling mechanism have over the normal Perl error-handling methods (eval/die)?

Also, is there any clear advantage of the OO approach other than the obvious "syntactic sugar"?



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In reply to Advantages of OO-ish exception handling.. by vladb

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