On 27 Jan 2016 10:56 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
But, what is the point of $! at all?
Convenience. It makes it easy to write commonly-used constructs much
faster.
My mostly unscientific approach to gather usage of try vs. CATCH in the
ecosystem:
moritz@hack:~/p6/perl6-all-modules$ git grep --word CATCH | wc -l
461
moritz@hack:~/p6/perl6-all-modules$ git grep --word try | wc -l
864
CATCH is also rather clunky by comparison (requires an explicit block,
whereas 'try' can be used as a statement prefix; requires a "when" or
"default" blocks).
Yeah … obviously I wasn’t part of the discussions, but ISTM a more
straightforward syntax could have been found. <shrug>
-F
