When speaking of OO methods, you wrote:
> They need to be able to throw named exceptions which the
> caller can choose to catch or not. die is the closest thing to a
+n
> exception in Perl, and eval is a long way from a try block.
Have you tried using a custom Perl solution for this? Graham
Barr's
Error module (
direct doc link) lets you use standard try and catch
semantics for exception handling. I've not used it, because I've
always just stuck w/ eval, because it works for me. :)
You might also take a look at Exception::Class, a base exception
class on which you can base any exceptions your system wishes
to throw.
You also wrote:
> Worse, perl's sub routine simplicity of having subroutines
> take a variable number of arguments ...
Have you ever looked at
Class::MultiMethods? It might help
you in this area, if you like that sort of structured stuff. :)
