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From:
Dan Book
Date:
January 22, 2021 18:48
Subject:
Re: Adding a try/catch syntax to Perl
Message ID:
CABMkAVUH+bcn3f5XvMx-1LBdi1Dyw26aTQEfEYCoH0K5Ohx1+g@mail.gmail.com
The parentheses also enable future extensions with arbitrary syntax such as
typed dispatch.
-Dan
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 1:38 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>
wrote:
> FWIW, I personally prefer the parens. It matches what I expect from JS, at
> least, and it fits things like the “isa” feature of Syntax::Keyword::Try.
>
> -FG
>
> > On Jan 22, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Philip R Brenan <philiprbrenan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Please change catch ($e) to catch $e so that millions of people in the
> decades to come do not have to waste thousands of man years of effort
> struggling to correctly parse and place pointless parentheses when a small
> amount of extra programming effort eftsoon could easily eradicate this evil
> necessity in its entirety and thereby save us all a lot of time. "Tempus
> fugit". "Ha una vita sola".
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:02 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <
> leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
> > I intend to add try/catch syntax. This has been one of the most
> > frequently-requested of core syntax features - from both community
> > sources like Freenode #perl and other core developers - so I do not
> > anticipate this will be a contentious or debated idea.
> >
> > As many of the existing CPAN solutions all follow a very similar theme
> > - including my own Syntax::Keyword::Try[1] - I expect I shall follow
> > that pattern, and likewise do not anticipate that this will be
> > considered controversial. Syntax::Keyword::Try has been the preferred
> > module by Freenode #perl for a while now, and folks seem happy with it.
> >
> > I further intend it to be introduced as
> >
> > use feature 'try';
> >
> > Towards this goal, I have created a module Feature::Compat::Try[2] to
> > simplify migration. Existing authors can
> >
> > use Feature::Compat::Try;
> >
> > in their current code, today, and import a configured version of
> > Syntax::Keyword::Try which works on all Perl versions back to 5.16, and
> > conforms exactly to the specification of the thing I want to add to
> > core. (S:K:T additionally contains other features, experimental ideas,
> > and past mistakes, that I do not intend to bring in at this time, hence
> > the configuration).
> >
> > A brief summary, from its synopsis, is:
> >
> > use Feature::Compat::Try;
> >
> > sub foo
> > {
> > try {
> > attempt_a_thing();
> > return "success";
> > }
> > catch ($e) {
> > warn "It failed - $e";
> > return "failure";
> > }
> > }
> >
> > If anyone wishes to review in more detail the syntax and semantics,
> > please read the documentation and unit-tests of this module. That is
> > what I intend to implement exactly. You do not have to wait until I
> > have a PR to actually implement it to do this - the earlier you do
> > this, the better :)
> >
> >
> > 1: https://metacpan.org/pod/Syntax::Keyword::Try
> >
> > 2: https://metacpan.org/pod/Feature::Compat::Try
> >
> > --
> > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> >
> > leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS
> > http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > Philip R Brenan
>
>
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