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On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 12:55 PM Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:53 AM Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:59 AM Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> wrote: >> >>> There would be no change for "do", it doesn't require truthiness. >>> >> >> C<do> actually does require the return of a true value if you want to >> detect failures. >> >> do(...) or die $!; # File not found, etc >> die $@ if $@; # Syntax error, runtime exception, etc >> >> > That's only due to the deficiencies of the do() API and the convention you > wrote - not an intrinsic part of the API. do can still be used on a file > that returns false if you don't perform that particular check. > There is no alternate check if you want an error message. And it would be rather silly not to provide a useful error message. So there's really no other way to use it. So I was pretty gracious when I didn't limit myself to saying " C<do> actually does require the return of a true value".Thread Previous | Thread Next