Why not - it seems to function quite well - same as any other fetched variable.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:04 PM To: Stanley, Jack; 'Daniel Shane' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: How to return an error in $!? At 4:48 PM -0600 1/20/02, Stanley, Jack wrote: >I have looked everywhere on the web and I cannot find an example of >returning an error string in $! in my XS extention. Does somebody know how >to do this? You really can't--$! is a magic variable, and you can't override its magic like that. $! only gets system errno codes, and prints the corresponsing errno messages when stringified. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
