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John Porter wrote: > > There is no try, there is only do. :-) Nonsense. Traditionally Perl has had both the "do" and the "eval" block forms, the latter which traps, the former which doesn't. "try" is just a slightly souped-up "eval" that better handles the class of problems introduced when exceptions are more commonly used for error handling (by adding some well-defined auxiliary clauses to the statement). Perl has always used an in-flow statement (namely "eval") to signal an unwind-trapping context; are you *sure* you want to change that tradition now? If we work together on this we can make Perl 6's exception handling something worth having worked on. If we throw a bunch of untested ideas together we can only hope they work (at least I hope they work, since Perl has been my favourite language for the last twelve years). Now, shall we? Yours, &c, Tony OlekshyThread Previous | Thread Next