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I'm looking for an idiom or pattern.
I have a subroutine. I'd like to call it and handle problems it might encounter. I could implement so that I can call it this way: But I would much rather set things up so I can use the more concise: or... Can I co-opt a global special error var to set on error in my sub? I've checked on a couple possibilities but haven't found anything promising. E.g. you can assign a number to $! but apparently only to cause it to point to an existing system error description if $! is then used in string context. My religion forbids me to use globals of my own creation, so I'd like to avoid that if I can. ;-) TIA, David In reply to Idomatic Handling of Subroutine Error by dvergin
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