What's broken about exceptions in Perl?

Question

A discussion in another question got me wondering: what do other programming languages\' exception systems have that Perl\'s lacks?

Perl\'s built-in exceptions are a

Answer 1

In C++ and C#, you can define types that can be thrown, with separate catch blocks that manage each type. Perl type systems have certain niggling issues related to RTTI and inheritance, according from what I read on chomatic's blog.

I'm not sure how other dynamic languages manage exceptions; both C++ and C# are static languages and that bears with it a certain power in the type system.

The philosophical problem is that Perl 5 exceptions are bolted on; they aren't built from the start of the language design as something integral to how Perl is written.