On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:05:14PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > This came up at YAPC::Europe. Someone [1] wanted to know if 1/0 would > produce a divide by zero error in Perl 6, or if it would return a value > representing an indeterminate result (undef?) It would make more sense for > Perl, upon being given a simple bit of impossible math, to return undef > (like other functions do on failure) than to generate an error. The error > seems a throwback to earlier days of hardwired calculators.
I thought that under the new world order it would generate an exception rather than an error. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
