The first entry in my new weekly "Perl etc." O'Reilly blog is up:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7928
When I mentioned it on #perl6, nothingmuch suggested I post to p6l as
well. So here you go. :-)
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:46:37 -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> The recent thread on Expectuations brought back to mind something I've been
> thinking for a while. In short, I propose that "use fatal" be on by default,
> and
> that "err" be turned into syntactic sugar for a very small try/CATCH
The recent thread on Expectuations brought back to mind something I've been
thinking for a while. In short, I propose that "use fatal" be on by default,
and
that "err" be turned into syntactic sugar for a very small try/CATCH block.
Basically, my observation is that no-one consistently checks t
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:49:11 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> I'd like to add a little more. The context of the original throw
> probably knows best whether it's even possible or sensical to
> continue, so it should be optional whether the exception contains a
> resume continuation. The presence of
I'd like to add a little more. The context of the original throw
probably knows best whether it's even possible or sensical to
continue, so it should be optional whether the exception contains a
resume continuation. The presence of the continuation signals that
the inner code would *like* to cont
