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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:39 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> How would you see rewriting that in a hypothetical core 'try'? I
> suggest for example:
>
> use feature 'try';
>
> try {
> somefunc();
> }
> catch my $e (isa X::SomeException) { say "Red" }
> catch my $e (=~ m/^Cannot do a thing /) { say "Blue" }
>
TBH I'd be content with just
...
try {
...
}
catch my $e {
if ($e isa X::SomeException) { ... }
elsif ($e =~ m/^Cannot do a thing/) { ... }
else { ... }
}
finally {
...
}
..but I'm not usually the most imaginative when it comes to new syntax, and
the smartmatch debacle showed us that there are many wrong ways to do it :)
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