At some point, one has to accept that this language is not Python, not call
for one's favorite Python-isms to be incorporated into the core regardless
of how it might interact with what is already there.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT <
perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> There's a little problem with it. You see, right now this works:
>
> exit "1"
>
> So we simply cannot force it to do something else with Strs because that
> can
> break existing (perfectly valid) code. We can go through a long deprecation
> cycle but it's not worth it (IMO).
>
> But it may be possible to catch X::Str::Numeric exception and print better
> message for this situation… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> On 2017-08-10 02:09:30, szab...@gmail.com wrote:
> > In Python one can pass a string to the exit() function that will be
> > displayed and the program exited.
> >
> >
> > In Perl 6 I get:
> >
> > $ perl6
> > To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
> > > exit("hello")
> > Cannot convert string to number: base-10 number must begin with valid
> > digits or '.' in '⏏hello' (indicated by ⏏)
> > in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1
> >
> > Would it be possible to special case when someone passes a string to
> > exit and give a better error message telling how to write that?
> >
> > Better yet, could exit accept a string?
>
>
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