Re: spiffy error handling ...

p.s. alert is a simple function I wrote to call a javascript alert window. "Alexander Ross" <alexross@bleen.net> wrote in message news:20020809153238.20206.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > This may be kids play for some of you, but I figured this out and thought > I'd share... > > $connect = connect-to-db() or (alert("error") xor die()); > > or > > $connect = connect-to-db() or (alert("error") xor return(false)); > > It makes for much cleaner code than what I used to do: > > $connect = connect-to-db() > if (!$connect){ > alert("Error"); > return(false); > } > > Alex > >