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From:
Zefram
Date:
February 23, 2017 20:24
Subject:
Re: The tricky issue of do()
Message ID:
20170223202343.GR6573@fysh.org
Todd Rinaldo wrote:
>Wow! I assumed it would die. But it's even worse. $@ appears to be empty.
>I think you have to check $! for do.

Yeah, that too.  The formulation one normally wants for do is

	do "foo.pl" or die $@ || $!;

That a failure can show up in either $! or $@, and is never signalled
as an exception, is long-standing and documented.  We can't change this.

-zefram
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