JT Smith

Mark Fowler will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

This talk attempts to be the definitive guide to current state of exception handling in Perl

This talk will cover:

   * The concept of exceptions and exception flow control

   * throwing errors with die

   *** The final newline oddity

   *** autodie

   * eval (it’s pronounced ‘try’)

   *** The two forms of eval

   *** Dealing with errors

   *** How this sucks

   * A note about %SIG handlers

   *** CGI::Carp

   * Throwing Blessed Objects

   *** Rolling your own exception class

   *** Handy exception object classes on the CPAN

   * The DESTROY problem on legacy Perls

   *** Why this problem occurs

   *** How it’s solved on Perl 5.14 and later

   *** Bad workarounds

   *** Perl::Critic::Policy::ErrorHandling::RequireCheckingReturnValueOfEval

   * Alternative syntax

    *** Try::Tiny

     *** TryCatch

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]