backwards compatible 'die $obj'

LanX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

we have a large infrastructure based on catching die "string" errors and catching them with eval I want to introduce die $err_obj with Try::Tiny for a cleaner handling.

But for introduction we need to be backwards compatible, i.e. $err_obj should stringify via overload to a classical error string. Before reinventing the wheel I was skimming thru CPAN but couldn't quite find a ready to use solution.

Any recommendations?

update

talking about Throw looks promising ... :)

Cheers Rolf
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Re: backwards compatible 'die $obj' by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 24, 2021 at 16:01 UTC
We use Exception::Class::Try::Catch at work. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: backwards compatible 'die $obj' by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 27, 2021 at 15:18 UTC
`s/autoload/overload/` I think, but I'd look at choroba's proposal first.	[reply]
Re^2: backwards compatible 'die $obj' by LanX (Saint) on Sep 27, 2021 at 15:29 UTC
> s/autoload/overload/ I think oops, of course, corrected! :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re: backwards compatible 'die $obj' by perlancar (Hermit) on Sep 28, 2021 at 02:00 UTC
Maybe something like Object::Util::Stringify can help? It can be used with other exception framework or just without.	[reply]
Re^2: backwards compatible 'die $obj' by LanX (Saint) on Sep 28, 2021 at 12:02 UTC
Thanks, but how to implement stringification via overload is not the real problem here. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re: backwards compatible 'die $obj' (grep.metacpan.org) by LanX (Saint) on Sep 30, 2021 at 22:42 UTC
FWIW: this query on https://grep.metacpan.org `https://grep.metacpan.org/search?q=use%5Cs%2Boverload&qd=%5Cb%28Carp%7CThrow%7CDie%7CTry%7CCatch%7CException%7CError%29&qft=&qci=on` lists over 30 potential distributions named `\b(Carp\|Throw\|Die\|Try\|Catch\|Exception\|Error)` and including `use\s+overload` I didn't link directly to the query to avoid unnecessary traffic. grep.metacpan still seems to be work in progress, it didn't refresh automatically for me and I had to reload. It's also listing dozens of empty result pages. Not all hits are valid, I couldn't narrow it down yet to only those overloading `'""'` explicitly, because a) perl has many `q("")` expressions and b) they need to be on the same line for the query. I guess at most half of those hits are valid, but refining the search with the API gives a powerful tool to find valid modules. :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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