Re: A common base exception object for Perl - RFC

[pete@horus.cix.co.uk (Pete Jordan)]

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:

> I wouldn't worry much about performance on exception processing.  They
> are, after all, supposed to be exceptional.  With exception processing
> we should be striving for correctness over speed, rather than speed
> over correctness like we usually do.  :-)

Fair point :)

I was thinking about this driving home though; $@->isa /is/ the best 
solution, an exception class can always overload it if it wants...

Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications Ltd ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/

"'Not twisted,' Salzy once said of her own passion, 'it is helical.
 That sounds better.'"

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Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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