Minimiscience wrote: > I tried to find the answers to these in the Synopses, but I couldn't. > Plan B is to ask the mailing list. > > - What does the "first" method/subroutine return when no elements of > the list match? Does it return the empty list? Does the return value > count as undefined/failure?
I guess it will return a Nil, which is the empty list in list context, and undef in item context. > - How does one get/set the number/size of elements in a Buf object? Since it's a mutable container, I'd speculate that you'd just use it numeric context. Or call the .elems method. But that need speccing. > - Exactly what happens if & when a call to open() fails? Is an > exception thrown, and, if so, how does one catch it? it fail()s (ie returns an unthrown exception) Cheers, Moritz
