Catch Me If You Can: Sugary exception handling with TryCatch.pm

By Ash Berlin (‎Ash‎) from London.pm
Date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:20
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Technical Perl
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Tags: catch devel::declare exception try

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Exception handling in perl is currenlty far from perfect. eval leaves a lot to be desired. Lots of darkpan code is rife with pottential code that could interfere with $@

TryCatch (on CPAN now) fixes this through the magic of Devel::Declare.

Breifly address what's wrong with eval, what I/we'd like, and then finally how it was done using Devel::Declare

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