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I would use the hell out of a sane_do feature. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > On 2/23/2017 1:23 PM, Zefram wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > If it really is the case that we can't change it, this sounds important > enough to make new behavior turned on via a feature, say > > "use feature 'sane_do'" >Thread Previous | Thread Next