Thanks, Bart. So Tony, it looks like RFC 88, because of its tight coupling
of exception and failure handling, needs to address the issue of "do FILE"
that Bart mentions can set $@. This is an issue that results solely from the
coupling of exception and failure handling, not from the syntax and
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:35:16 -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote:
In the perl 5 pocket reference 3rd edition page 63, it claims that $@ is
set to the result of an eval or do. How does this impact exception
handling tests on $@ to determine if an exception was thrown, if $@ can
be set by a do ? OR is
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:04:51AM -0300, Branden wrote:
Bart Lateur wrote:
No, it's a misunderstanding between you and Tony. The "do" your
reference is talking about, is of the form
do FILE
where file is a string containing a filename, while Tony is talking
about the
do
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:04:51AM -0300, Branden wrote:
Why `do FILE' behaves like eval, if there's eval to do it? Isn't this a
little too much not-orthogonal? Why don't we require `eval { do FILE }'
to
have the behaviour of not dying and setting $@ ?
And that
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:58:34PM -0300, Branden wrote:
I find a "let's require some extra hoops and red tape" not very-Perl like.
Perl is there for the programmer; not the other way around.
Please read ``Larry's talk in Atlanta about Perl 6'', the text is in
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Tony Olekshy wrote:
Traditionally Perl has had both the "do" and the "eval" block
forms, the latter which traps, the former which doesn't.
In the perl 5 pocket reference 3rd edition page 63, it claims that
$@ is set to the result of an eval or do. How does
Tony Olekshy wrote:
Traditionally Perl has had both the "do" and the "eval" block
forms, the latter which traps, the former which doesn't.
In the perl 5 pocket reference 3rd edition page 63, it claims that $@ is
set to the result of an eval or do. How does this impact exception
handling
John Porter wrote:
There is no try, there is only do. :-)
Nonsense.
Traditionally Perl has had both the "do" and the "eval" block
forms, the latter which traps, the former which doesn't.
"try" is just a slightly souped-up "eval" that better handles the
class of problems introduced when
