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Roland Giersig wrote:
> But now the prototype doesn't match the exotic form, so when the
> parser encounters this, he dies. With what error message?
Syntax error at example.pl line 5, near "} @args"
Not really pretty, the syntax error is spotted by Perl after it sees the
close-brace:
system { $cmd } @args;
> Is it possible to intercept the message and substitute a better one,
> so that a "syntax error" or "doesn't match prototype" becomes
No way that I can see without changing perl or using source filters. My
argument is that even though the error message is obscure, the exotic form
of system is so rare that most people don't even know it exists, let alone
use it.
The big time I see this coming as a surprise is when people are converting
existing code from Fatal to autodie, at which point after they
s/Fatal/autodie/; and they get a syntax error, I hope they'll read the
documentation. ;)
> Coming to think of, what does this do:
>
> use autodie qw(open);
> use autodie qw(system);
>
> Is open still autodieing after the second line? I would hope so.
It certainly is, at least until the end of the current lexical scope. You
can even:
use autodie qw(:io);
no autodie qw(open);
to have all functions with the :io role enable autodie behaviour, *except*
for open. That also works right now with the current build.
Cheerio,
Paul
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