WHile I understand the H::T doesn't have much it can do (besides croak) if it can't get to the specified template, dieing without a message to the user isn't a viable option in a robut web application, and is a minor PITA when developing. Since typically the coding and template writting is done by different folks, the coder and testers will often have this situation arise.

The call in question, load_tmpl, would normally return a template object. I'm thinking it should return either a null, or something else that can be easily tested so that the application as a whole can deal nicely with the situation.

In a general sense, if you have an object constructor method, what is the "best practices" behavior for the case where it cannot create the object?

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In reply to Re: Re: CGI::Application/HTML::Template error handling by freddo411
in thread CGI::Application/HTML::Template error handling by freddo411

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