So I’ve done some complaining and explaining about what I’d like to see in regards to Exceptions in Perl. I Mostly explained what I wanted for catching Exceptions, and a little on throwing Exception objects, but not really how those objects should behave. I’ve looked at and tried various exception modules, including croak, confess, and Throwable. I basically spent time one day reading the manuals of most of the exception objects on CPAN.

I hate die it is, in my humble opinion, one of the worst parts of perl. I really wish it would be deprecated, and removed, or at least replaced with something that would tell you were the code that was die-ing was being called. Replace its implementation with that of Carp’s croak or confess and I’d be happy. Better yet, let’s just get real exception support and deprecate die (even if that’s never removed deprecation just make that real big on its pod).

I have come to wish many things were part of Perl syntax that are not, and no using external modules is not enough for me. I think it’s time Perl got the features as part of the language itself (and yes I suppose I could settle for feature.pm, and no I’m probably not going to write them myself, I’m not smart enough yet). The first of these is a proper exception stack.