> Austin Hastings wrote: > > my int $i = ...; # Fails at compile time -- no good conversion. > > > > my Int $i = ...; # Warns at compile time, fails at runtime. > > I don't get the reasoning here. If Yada Yada Yada is to indicate code > that you haven't written yet, it should never fail at compile time > unless it's impossible to compile the program without knowing what that > code is, so > > my int $i = ...; > > should compile. The problem would arise when you actually tried to run > that particular bit of code, which may well look to Parrot like 'die > horribly'.
Or. not so horribly. If I'm in the perl debugger, I'd want that to be a breakpoint and give me the option to type in a evaluable string to replace it. So it should throw a properly marked exception that an outer context can do something with. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
