Thank you very much!
my $bill =
try ack() orelse
try thpp() orelse
do ppt();
This certainly does what I asked for, and it's short enough (even if we
need to add a few brackets).
Yes, the basic problem with the proposal is that it catches all
exceptions willy nilly and
HaloO,
Yaakov Belch wrote:
I believe that ---from a usability point of view--- it's very important to:
* classify exceptions by severity or other characteristics,
* provide named adverbs/pragmas to modify default CATCH handlers,
* make them configurable by outer scopes.
[..]
The programmer
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Yaakov Belch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a little language that I wrote some time ago, I found it very useful to
let the // operator catch exceptions:
f(x) // g(y) does:
* If f(x) returns a defined value, use this value.
* If f(x) returns an undefined value,
in my mind, this strays too far from the meaning of C// and adds
ambiguity that makes the operator unusable. perhaps there's room for
an operator that gives some sugar for
my $bill = try { ack() CATCH { thpp() } };
but to me that code is concise enough that it doesn't warrant syntactic
Yaakov Belch perl6-at-yaakovnet.net |Perl 6| wrote:
Let me explain why this is useful and why I think this is the right thing:
First of all, it provides a very light-weight exception handling using
well-known ideoms like:
$file_content=read_file($filename) // $default_value;
