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in reply to Re: the try/catch example from "Programming Perl" analyzed
in thread the try/catch example from "Programming Perl" analyzed

Don't use ref - use blessed. Now, you can be guaranteed it's an exception object, insofar as you can guarantee that all code you would want to call in an eval/$@ block would propagate exception objects if they propagate objects at all.

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I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested