At 05:18 PM 8/17/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Peter Scott wrote: > > > >Maybe $! becomes an alias for anything that gets thrown > > > > Actually it looks like $@ is doing that at the moment. *Confused* > >Make them all writable, then we can make user-defined errors seem >to be whatever we want. > >Or leave them the hell alone and introduce a new variable $^t which >will be "whatever got thrown last" instead of bothering with >propagating it around within the handlers. > >Just to be even more confusing. > > >Anyway here are the current documentations, to unconfuse you and >anyone else who needs to see this: No, I know what they do right now; it's what to do with them in Perl 6 that I'm confused about. There's a definite overlap between $! and $@ that bothers me. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies