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David Nicol wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote: > >> seem to be something that absolutely must change), I believe the true >> problem here is that die seems to be pass by reference, and that local >> is restoring the value to undef (or whatever it was before) before $@ is >> made available to the caller. >> > > no that's not it but it is a red herring -- I would like to revise the proposed > addition of this issue to the eval documentation to but double-quotes > around the $@ in the commented-out line in the example code. > > > That's not a real solution - what about if $@ is an object? Effectively you are changing pass by reference to pass by string copy - which is good for probably 95%+ cases. As I said, the problem is pass by reference. Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>Thread Previous | Thread Next