Re^3: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles

[graff]

Yes, what you say about low-level C-like behavior vs. DWIM Perl-like behavior is sensible. But you have to bear in mind that the "default, typical usage" model in Perl is to proceed as if the specifics of various error conditions don't usually matter and you should be able to carry on regardless -- i.e. in the "generic" case you ignore error conditions, and only attend to them (with an extra line or few of code) when you feel a specific need to do so.

[gaal]

Fine, which is why I'm okay with a declarative syntax for turning on the error handling (that is off by default). It can be something like %SIG, or come to thing of it, pragmatic behavior lexically defined.

use closefail qw(:standard);
use closefail { die "I'm not feeling so well: $!" };

There are plenty of ways this could be improved, I'm sure. for one thing, the naming is just the first thing that came to mind.

One possible complication in implementing this, however, is that the scope of this declaration needs to include the closing of the current scope, if you pardon the pun. So you can say this:

{
    use closefail;
    open my $thing, $what or die "...";
    # ...
}   # <- still in effect as this block ends

Instead of:

{
    use closefail;
    {
        open my $thing, $what or die "...";
        # ...
    }
}