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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
March 22, 2008 16:12
Subject:
Re: local $@ has an unwanted side effect
Message ID:
b77c1dce0803221612vb678531sc77d6423ead8c841@mail.gmail.com
On 21/03/2008, Dr.Ruud <rvtol+news@isolution.nl> wrote:
>  > So should we introduce an automatic localization of $@ before
>  > destruction?
>
>
> Just leave $@ as is, and introduce @@.

I agree that the behaviour of $@ is very hard to modify right now in
Perl 5. It has many complications and many people have worked around
features or misfeatures in many ways. Introducing a parallel system
might work.
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