in reply to interpreting a server's response

Except for errors that occur during object construction, the error message is placed in $ftp->message, not $@.

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Re^2: interpreting a server's response
by Aldebaran (Curate) on Jan 14, 2012 at 03:02 UTC

    Can you elaborate? Why is this diagnostic being issued?

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      Because if the constructor fails, there's no object on which to call the message method.
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