Re^3: Perl oddities

[Joost]

in reply to Re^2: Perl oddities
in thread Perl oddities

IMO system() (and related ops) should just raise an exception on error. There is no reason to force everyone to write all these return code checks when 90 % of the time you'll want to bail out on error anyway (and if not, you can use eval, or try() in perl6).