At 09:41 PM 8/28/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
>I just want the cognitive simplicity of knowing that $@ and every
>@@ isa Exception, no matter what.
>
>Why not merge $!, $^E, and $@ into $!, but leave $@ alone too?
>That way, none of the existing die/eval code will break without
>being modified to
>Now, every error is guaranteed to be an object. You can call some method
>or check some attribute of it to find out if it was an exception. If
>you're checking a system() or `` failure, you use it in numerical
>context. If you're checking a builtin failure, you use it in string
>context (u
At 01:07 PM 8/29/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Now, every error is guaranteed to be an object. You can call some method
> >or check some attribute of it to find out if it was an exception. If
> >you're checking a system() or `` failure, you use it in numerical
> >context. If you're check
