Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-16 Thread Dave Rolsky
On 15 Aug 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > =head2 Exceptions > > Exceptions are objects belonging to some C class. Cing > an exception creates the object; therefore, C above is just a > class name. C lets you subclass C to create them; > C appears to be a better name for a core functionality

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-16 Thread Graham Barr
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > >PRL> =head2 Exception classes - ignoring > > > >PRL> Note that we could also make it possible to selectively or globally > >ignore > >PRL> exceptions, so that perl continues executing the line after the C > >PRL> statement. Just imp

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PRL> =head2 $SIG{__DIE__} > > PRL> <$SIG{__DIE__}> needs to be triggered only as a I resort > PRL> instead of firing immediately, since it messes with the mind of > PRL> this and every o

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-15 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please include the comments about global variables and action at a distance. PS> I'm sorry, my brain is fried. Can you spell out for me what you mean in PS> this context and I'll put it in. I am adamant against increasing the number of

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-15 Thread Peter Scott
Hmm, it now appears that everything on this subject has to go to perl6-language-errors and perl6-language-flow. At 03:26 PM 8/15/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >PRL> RFC 80 proposes standard exception classes and methods for core

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-15 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PRL> RFC 80 proposes standard exception classes and methods for core exceptions. PRL> This RFC doesn't need to repeat those, but it can expound upon the PRL> semantics that exception classes ought to have. Assume wlog that they PRL>

RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-15 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Exception handling syntax =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 8 Aug 2000 Last-Modified: 14 Aug 2000 Version: 3 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]