Re: A common base exception object for Perl - RFC

[Pete Jordan <pjordan1@email.mot.com>]

"Redford, John" wrote:

> With a minimal base class you gain two things. First, all exception
> objects can be subclasses of Exception, permitting:
>         $@->isa('Exception')
> as a common handler for any exception. Secondly, the author of an
> Exception subclass does not have to ever know about the '""' code.
> While simple looking, it would be a large distraction for people to
> have to read `perldoc overload` (or think they have to read it).

Agreed. The only question is how minimal is minimal? What, if any,
facilities are 99.9% certain to be useful to /all/ exception classes?

In any case, as long as the base class defines the C<to_string> method
and does the C<use overload>, subclasses just need to provide their own
C<to_string> method, yes?

Pete
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