hi monks,

I'm currently making my first steps in OO-Perl-Coding and couldn't find an answer to the following problem yet:
Some simple code-example:
test.pm:
...
sub status {
    my $self = shift;
    if ($self ne 'hm') {
        $! = '2';
        return undef;
    }
}
...

test.pl

$obj->status() || die "Error: $!";

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So what I'd like to do is to modify the $!-Var but not just with a number like done in the code above, but also the error-msgs itself with my own text. Is there a clear/common way to do that, and would you suggest to do so if there is?

I've had a look at some modules like like ftp.pm but all I could find were simple "return undef;" so that the caller could do the die itself but won't get a error-message, or a croak in the module so that the caller would also die even if the one who uses it maybe don't want his. I know that I could use eval in the caller but I'm wondering if there issn't a more easy way to do handle this...

giant

In reply to OO Error handling $!? by kodo

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