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Omnibus Structured Exception/Error Handling Mechanism
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Maintainer: Tony Olekshy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 08 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 23 Aug 2000
Version: 2
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:37:59PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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Omnibus Structured Exception/Error Handling Mechanism
Woohoo!
catch Alarm = { ... }
catch Alarm, Error = { ... }
catch $@ =~ /divide by 0/ = { ... }
The = here seems like useless syntax to me.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:10:49AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
At 12:07 PM 8/24/00 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
catch Alarm = { ... }
catch Alarm, Error = { ... }
catch $@ =~ /divide by 0/ = { ... }
The = here seems like useless syntax to me.
Au contraire... it
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:47:45AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
But I initially wanted to do without the = ... unfortunately that would
require another keyword to handle the EXPR case and it didn't seem
worth it.
Not necessarily.
catch { EXPR } { ... } # probably not
At 12:07 PM 8/24/00 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
catch Alarm = { ... }
catch Alarm, Error = { ... }
catch $@ =~ /divide by 0/ = { ... }
The = here seems like useless syntax to me.
Au contraire... it emerged from our discussion of this case:
catch EXPR { ...
