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That only works as long as your '1' hasn't been rewritten as an
overloaded literal.
use bigint;
eval {
...
1; # secretly, an object which will have ->
} or ...;
There's really nothing you can count on.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 18:42, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think the best
>>> available approach is
>>
>> I like the practice of separating the questions
>> "did the block succeed?" from "what was the exception?"
>> by ending the eval block with 1 instead of testing $@.
>> unless(eval { ... ; 1}){
>> ... #catch
>> }
>>
>> --
>> "Unacceptable: Little cartoon boy micturating on Fedora logo" -- fedora
>> project trademark guidelines
>>
>
> I always liked
>
> eval {
> #do stuff that may die
> 1;
> } or do {
> #catch
> };
>
> --
> Chas. Owens
> wonkden.net
> The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
>
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