Magic variables make multiple threads impossible, which is why perl 5 is stuck with ithreads: what happens if two threads each "run" something at around the same time?
In Perl 6, you have a Proc object for each subprocess, and can query it for its status and/or result code; for things like sub run, the Proc should be the return value. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:08 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is probably going to be a forehead-slapper, but I can't find a > reference in either perlintro.com or http://docs.perl6.org/ > (5to6-perlfunc or top-down) for the equivalents of $? and $! in > P6.What are they? > > I want to be able to "run" or "shell" programs, then examine return > codes and errors. (The immediate case is to see if a program name is > already in use by running "which $progname". ) > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
