> David Grove writes:
> : > That's not how I see it. The filehandle is naturally true if it
> : > succeeds. It's the undef value that wants to have more information.
> : > In fact, you could view $! as a poor-man's way of extracting the error
> : > that was attached to the last undef.
> :
> : If I were wealthy enough in time and patience to forego poor-man's error
> : handling for exceptions and verbosity I'd be programming in C++
> with PCRE.
>
> Thank you. I think...
>
> I hope you weren't reading my remark to say that $! is going away,
Naw, I just cringe when I hear "exception" and "perl" in the same sentence.
Heretofore they have been violently adamant if not oxymoronic antitheses.
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