RFC 119 (v3) Object neutral error handling via exceptions

2000-09-14 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Object neutral error handling via exceptions =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16 Aug 2000 Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 119

RFC 80 (v3) Exception objects and classes for builtins

2000-09-14 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Exception objects and classes for builtins =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9 Aug 2000 Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $a in @b (RFC 199)

2000-09-14 Thread John Porter
David L. Nicol wrote: > > This ability to jump to "the right place" is exactly what exception handling > is for, as I understand it. Exceptions allow us to have one kind of block > and any number of kinds of exit mechanisms. If qC(last die return) are all > excpetions, the can travel up the call

Re: $a in @b (RFC 199)

2000-09-14 Thread David L. Nicol
'John Porter' wrote: > > David L. Nicol wrote: > > "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > > > > > I think we need a distinction between "looping" blocks and > > > "non-looping" blocks. And further, it still makes sense to > > > distinguish "blocks that return values" (like subroutines and map/grep > >