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On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 12:56 PM Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > Whenever $@ is populated, the relevant logic would check to see if the >> active feature set dictates putting the object or the string into $@. >> > > This is exactly the problem. The lexical feature would have an effect on > the exact problematic code we are discussing (which is by the way not > "esoteric" in any useful sense of the word, we simply cannot break it), > which is not in the scope of the feature. > If I'm following correctly, we want the *caller* of the exception-throwing code to decide whether it wants an error string or an error object. Therefore, make $@ into a dualvar-like construct that holds both pieces of information, and use the context of the caller to decide which form is used in an expression containing $@.Thread Previous | Thread Next