Dave Whipp wrote:
Damian Conway wrote:
And what you'd need to write would be:
$sum = (try{ [+] @values } err 0);
The "err ..." idiom seems too useful to have it break in this case.
Afterall, the purpose of "err 0" is to tell the stupid computer that I
know what to do with the empty-array scenario.
Feels like fine grained control over fatalness is needed (and not just
per-function). For example "use fatal :void_context_only" would be nice,
but wouldn't help in this case. This needs "use fatal :void_or_assign".
What it probably needs is: "use fatal :untested"
That is, die unless the failed result is in a boolean or "definedean" context.
This might even be a more reasonably dwimmy default, with 'use fatal :always'
being required to get "always throw the exception".
Damian
