On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Jay Savage <daggerqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> $@ is also *guaranteed*--in the words of perlfunc--to be set
> correctly. I believe that historically this may not have been the
> case: $@ may have only been set on failure and not flushed on success,
> but in recent Perls it should be reliable.
I also agree.
> I'm also curious under what circumstances you believe
> the eval could fail but $@ not be true (i.e., when would you expect
> your code to print "unknown"?).
>
I think Ruud didn't mean eval fail but $@ not be true.
If I understand for that correctly, what he tried to explain is, under
some cases the $@ is set by other eval {} call, not the current eval
{} you followed. Though I don't know if there is the case it will
happen...
Jeff.
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