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On Jul 23, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > Before we think about any of the fairly complicated systems suggested for > backcompat, we should find out how much breakage we'd cause by doing the > simplest thing that could possibly work. > > We should apply a patch that does nothing but make internal errors become > objects with overloaded stringification. Then we can see how much of the core > tests, and of the CPAN, breaks. We may be surprised by the results. +1 Yes, agree completely. And I think that adding the try/catch syntax is orthogonal to that, and can be done independently. Only if we later decide we need to do something fancy with die and the lexical $_ in CATCH will the come together, if at all. Best, DavidThread Previous | Thread Next