I am using Exception::Class and I wanted some clarification.
I created a simple exception class like ...
use Exception::Class
( 'MyException', ... };
In scalar context, an Exception::Class object implicitly invokes as_string, which invokes message. If the "throw" call doesn't specify a message, the message method returns $!.
Why was $! chosen as the default, over something like "Generic Exception"? When my program did not catch MyException properly, it printed some unrelated error messages. Also, the results were sometimes non-deterministic. This made it harder to find the original problem. Since I throw MyException explicitly under normal conditions, the value of $! is not an appropriate message for MyException.
Thanks!
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