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
Peter Scott wrote:
Tony Olekshy wrote:
In fact, not only would I be pleased and honoured to author the
Perl 6 core Try.pm module, I'm already working on a Perl 5 standard
reference implementation.
Peter, I think we should make this approach more clear in RFC 88.
I'm not
Peter Scott wrote:
At 06:48 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
I've read 151 a few times, and I don't understand how it can
impact the implementation of RFC 88 as a module. Please explain.
If $@ and $! are merged, then in code like
try {
Peter Scott wrote:
At 06:06 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
In fact, not only would I be pleased and honoured to author the
Perl 6 core Try.pm module, I'm already working on a Perl 5 standard
reference implementation.
Peter, I think we should make this approach more clear in RFC
