I like the idea of putting the errors in a object, having the storage and the handling in one place, I will definitely have a closer look at your code.

However, a problem with this seems to be that if a package is going to share the same error standard, it would need have it's own instance of the error class. So either I have to check in two places to find my error code, OR I would have to pass my main routine's error object explicitly to each subroutine call, eg: 

use Users;
use Error;
my $error = new Error;

($formatted_users = &format(&Users::get_users($filehandle))
  or $error->handle or $Users::error->handle;

====================OR====================
use Users;
use Error;
my $error = new Error;

($formatted_users = &format(&Users::get_users($file_handle,$error)))
        or $error->handle;

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which are both a bit messier than I'd like (although I've supplied a pretty messy example)

In reply to Re: (jeffa) Re: style for returning errors from subroutines by Boldra
in thread style for returning errors from subroutines by Boldra

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