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On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:28:34PM +0100, Zefram wrote: > Attached is a sequence of patches relating to die(). It fixes RT #74538, > along with moving more fully away from the historical requirement for > exceptions be no more than strings. It also fixes the issue with $@ > clobbering, which I've previously mentioned as a scoping/exception > problem. An overall theme for the patches is that $@ is currently given > too many jobs, some of them conflicting, so I've relieved it of some > of them. > > There are some changes in Perl-visible behaviour here. All the ones I > know about are intentional. No doubt someone will find some code that > gets broken by it. Let the bun fight begin. > I'm aware that rgs has already applied this series of patches, but I'm getting fairly uncomfortable with how quickly and cavalierly we're making backwards incompatible changes that will affect end-user code. At a quick skim of the patches, I didn't see an enumerated list of the changes perl-visible behavior you mentioned here....what are they? -JesseThread Previous | Thread Next