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On Mon, 3 May 2010, 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 like the general gist of this, but I'm afraid I don't find this
description of the proposed changed behavior particularly helpful. Could
you be explicit about which "jobs" $@ has been relieved of, and what those
"some changes" are? I do see the patch to perlcall.pod, but your general
comments above make me wonder if there is anything else that has changed.
Thanks,
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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