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On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:44:42 +0200
"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> wrote:
> * the new syntax would be no big deal, thanks to `feature`.
> * Changing `die` to create exception objects would be straight-forward
> * Changing core errors to category-specific exceptions would mostly be
> busy work, though maybe it can be derived from autodie
Here's an amusing question: In such a scheme, would we still want 'die'
to be the exception-throwing keyword? Why not 'throw'?
This might help avoid some tricky questions about how 'die' works in
such a context.
try {
throw Thingy;
}
catch {
# caught Thingy here, in $_ or $@ or somewhere...
}
Now we'd just have to consider how legacy die()-using code can be
supported in try/throw/catch. Perhaps the exception type it catches is
DieException, or some less Javaine name.
And now how throw()-using code behaves outside of a try{} block. Since
eval{} is only expecting stringy-like things anyway, that's the time to
stringify it.
die-in-eval can remain unchanged.
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