[Xapian-devel] Error handling in the bindings

[Richard Boulton]

Olly Betts wrote:
> I prefer Perl to Python for these sort of text manipulation tasks, and
> we're using Perl for several other scripts.  The diff between Perl and
> Python version makes it a bit hard to judge, but it seemed clearer to my
> eyes in Perl.
> 
> I wouldn't worry about rusty Perl - it just needs to do the job.  It
> doesn't matter if it's not "idiomatic" or as efficient as possible.

Ah - the rustyness in question was not being able to work out how to 
separate the list of exceptions (and the inheritance hierarchy) into a 
separate file with perl.  I'll have to look up how to do imports and 
things in Perl again, but I imagine it's possible.  Hints welcome. ;-)

-- 
Richard