>>>>> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DC> I very much like Icon's failure model, but I was loathe to try and
DC> graft it wholesale onto Perl 6. Doing it properly would require a
DC> substantial rethink of the exception mechanism, flow control, the
DC> nature of scalars, undef, etc., etc.
I vaguely recall that Larry was against this.
(I can't recall if it was ICON itself or the failure model, but then I
may very well mis-recall it.)
What would the failure model give us. (I read the ICON book a long
time ago.) Wouldn't it be a major departure from PERL as PERL.
<chaim>
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