I have been working on the Perl 5 reference implementation of
RFC 88 functionality (Try.pm, which is currently available at:
http://www.avrasoft.com/perl6/try6-ref5.txt ), and I stumbled
across the following result.
If you are writing some code, and there is a "throw" subroutine
in scope, and
At 10:13 AM 8/25/00 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
You're citing my objection for merging in $@ with the rest of the error
variables. $@ currently is the "eval failed" flag, irrespective of what
else failed. We *must* have such a flag. If $@ and $! would be merged,
$! will have to be cleared if the
At 01:42 AM 8/25/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
Peter Scott wrote:
If $@ and $! are merged, then in code like
try {
system_call_that_fails();
more_stuff_that_succeeds();
}
finally {
}
does the finally block
