OK, I admit it, I'm a Perl programmer that has been enamored by many nice things in Ruby, like array arithmetics, several syntax sugars, and the pure OO stuffs. Exceptions is also one of them. When I write small scripts that open or write files, and an I/O error happens, usually failing miserably is my preferred default behaviour. With exception I can be lazy and not handle I/O errors. But when I want to handle some errors, I can start adding try/catch blocks to my code.

Now Fatal and Error are pretty close to what I want, I just wish they can be combined somehow, now that would be gold. (PS: No, Error::SystemException is close but no cigar. I don't want to have to throw exceptions explicitly everytime.)