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From:
David Nicol
Date:
March 21, 2008 09:58
Subject:
Re: local $@ has an unwanted side effect
Message ID:
934f64a20803210958n29d85e64ibc943e78ec2bf2cb@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
>
>  Such code would fail if we'd introduce automatic localization of $@.
>
>  Is that worth it?

no.

What code would fail if the order of localization restoration and
assignment to $@ were switched?


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