I completely agree, eval-die is flexible enough for most use. Is there any advantage with hierarchical exceptions which is worth the addition code and modules?

The original problem can be written as:

use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.0100;

eval {
        print 10/0; # equivalent to: die "Illegal division by zero";
};

if($@) {
        if($@ =~ /Illegal division by zero/) {
                print "I feel funny\n";
                exit;
        } else {
                die $@;
        }
}

# No exception thrown.
print "What do you know, Perl can divide by zero.\n";

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Updated: this code doesn't work properly before Perl 5.10, so I added a 'use' statement to stop it.

In reply to Re^2: Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by ggvaidya
in thread Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by baurel

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