Yes; but then I think that something like infix: probably just ends up
as a macro somehow. I just didn't know the state of macros in Perl 6 well
enough to be able to head down that route. :)
Pm
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 10:32:41PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> Sometimes I wish we could
Sometimes I wish we could use Thunk as a type:
sub infix:(Thunk:D $block, $otherwise) { }
which would then allow you to do:
my $sixdivzero = divide(6,0) rescue -1; # note absence of curlies
One can wish, can’t one?
Liz
> On 3 Aug 2018, at 22:18, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
> Maybe
Maybe something like...?
$ cat t.p6
sub infix:(Callable $block, $otherwise) {
CATCH { return $otherwise; }
$block();
}
sub divide($a, $b) { die "Zero denominator" if $b == 0; $a / $b }
my $sixdivzero = { divide(6,0) } rescue -1;
say "6/0 = ", $sixdivzero;
my $sixdivtwo = { divide(6,2)
Hi Sean. I hope my second answer in stackoverflow gets closer to what you
want.
I am still trying to think of a more idiomatic way of handling to situation.
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, 19:29 Sean McAfee, wrote:
> I posted about this subject on Stack Overflow yesterday[1], but I chose a
> poor
I posted about this subject on Stack Overflow yesterday[1], but I chose a
poor example of something that raises an exception (dividing by zero, which
apparently doesn't necessarily do so) on which the answers have mostly
focused.
I was looking for a way to evaluate an expression, and if the
