# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #130876] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130876 >
> say "a"; "a" + 2; say "b" a > "a" + 2 Cannot convert string to number: base-10 number must begin with valid digits or '.' in '^a' (indicated by ^) in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1 In both of these cases the addition signals an exception, terminating the evaluation phase of the repl. But the exception is only reported in the second case. The behaviour in the first case, with the exception going unreported, is quite confusing in any case less obvious than this example. The criterion determining whether the exception gets reported is whether the evaluation has sent anything to the output stream. This is obviously the same logic that's being used to suppress printing the result of evaluation: it's OK to suppress that, but silly to also suppress error reports. -zefram
