Can the Perl compiler tell me if I have an unchecked exception in my code?
- by Konerak
Is there a way in Perl to declare that a method can throw an error (or die)?
EDIT: What interests me the most is a way to get the compiler or IDE to tell me I have an unchecked exception somewhere in my code.
I always loved how in Java, a method could handle an Exception and/or throw it. The method signature allows to put "throws MyException", so a good IDE/compiler would know that if you use said method somewhere in your code, you'd have to check for the Exception or declare your function to "throws" the Exception further.
I'm unable to find something alike in Perl. A collegue of mine wrote a method which "dies" on incorrect input, but I forget to eval-if($@) it... offcourse the error was only discovered while a user was running the application.
(offcourse I doubt if there is any existing IDE that could find these kind of things for Perl, but atleast perl -cw should be able to, no?)
