Exception Handling

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:01:02AM -0700, Ovid wrote:

> And if the end-user forgets to check a return value, or checks it incorrectly (there are plenty of subtle ways this can happen), this returning false fails.  I only want to see code returning false if the failure is safe to ignore.  Otherwise, I want a proper exception.

With that in mind, what do you think of my practice in Number::Phone et
al of returning 1 to mean "yes" (eg yes, this is a mobile number), 0 to
mean "no" (no, it's not a mobile number) and undef for "dunno"?

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