Re: early draft of exceptions PDD

2006-04-29 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:07:56 -0700 . . . HLL exception handlers on the other hand, are likely to be written as independent subroutines, much like the current signal handlers in Perl 5. An exception handler is closer to an event han

values of undef and JavaScript

2006-04-29 Thread Stéphane Payrard
In Perl5, the meaning of the undef value is overloaded. It can mean either the value an uninitialized variable or it may indeed mean a genuine undefined value. Perl5 is biased toward the first meaning: in string context, the value behaves as an empty string; In integer and float context, it respe