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  • Error.pm had exactly the same bug. The *real* solution is to overload boolean context:

    {
      package Exception::Class;
      use overload 'bool' => sub { 1 };
    }

    But you probably didn't want to know that right now ;-)

    But interestingly I don't see why people can't just use Error.pm's class structure without the try/catch semantics. At least until I get around to writing Error::Filter so that there'll be no more closures.

    • Re:Error.pm (Score:1)

      by kellan (905) on 2002.01.29 17:00 (#3822) Homepage Journal
      But you probably didn't want to know that right now ;-)
      No! Thats great. I think I'll leave my as_string overload because its useful for debugging purposes, but it was such an ugly kludge I was doubting my senses for returning to perl.

      re: Error::Filter, yeah I remember reading about that in your journal months ago, so where is it? Do you think we'll see it before Perl6 comes out and makes all this silly jiggering around obsolete? :)

      Btw. is the a reason to use Error.pm over Exception::Class?

      • re: Error::Filter, yeah I remember reading about that in your journal months ago, so where is it? Do you think we'll see it before Perl6 comes out and makes all this silly jiggering around obsolete? :)

        Well I lost what I had in a hard disk crash. I guess if there's enough interest I'll try and put something together for my exceptions talk at TPC (assuming it gets accepted). But don't expect anything too soon - as soon as I know what talks get accepted I'll be in major head-down mode writing talks...

        Btw
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