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On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> Now I’m not keen on some new ad-hoc type of smartmatch just because it
> would be similar to what other languages offer which already have some
> try/catch construct. So I’d just have `catch` follow the same syntax as
> any other kind of conditional in Perl:
>
> my $retry = 0;
> while ( $retry < 5 ) {
> try { $some->transaction }
> catch ( $@->isa('X::Transient') ) { ++$retry }
> }
>
> You’d be able to chain multiple `catch`es, of course.
I like it, although I would still like to find a way to avoid the use of a global variable.
Best,
David
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