Maybe your exception classes should implement errorcode()?

Cheers Christoph 
BEGIN{
    sub Exception::Class::Base::errorcode{
        my %def = shift->_defaults;
        return $def{errorcode} ;
    }

    sub Exception::Class::Base::_defaults{
        return (errorcode => 3);
    }
}

use Exception::Class (
      'MyException' => {defaults => {errorcode => 2}
                        },

      'AnotherException' => { isa => 'MyException' },

      'YetAnotherException' => {
          isa         => 'AnotherException',
          defaults    => {errorcode => 5},
      },

  );

eval { YetAnotherException->throw( error => 'I feel funny.' ) };

my $e;

if ( $e = Exception::Class->caught()){
    warn $e->error, "\n";
    warn $e->errorcode , "\n";
}

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update: example added

In reply to Re: switch question by lamprecht
in thread switch question by morgon

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