Re: $? and $! equivalents

2018-09-14 Thread Brad Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:08 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? > >

Re: $? and $! equivalents

2018-09-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
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

$? and $! equivalents

2018-09-14 Thread Parrot Raiser
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.