What are the best practices for error handling in Perl?

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Published on 2010-05-19T20:49:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 21:00 UTC
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I'm learning Perl, and in a lot of the examples I see errors are handled like this

open FILE, "file.txt" or die $!;

Is die in the middle of a script really the best way to deal with an error?

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