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On Wed, Jun 8, 2022, at 07:12, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> While it is initially tempting to suggest that `catch` would expose
> core-thrown exceptions as objects, there is already a problem here. In
> the past 20-odd years, the $@ variable (and more recently catch) have
> always exposed core-thrown exceptions as plain strings; anything that
> appears as an object must have been some user-thrown object:
I believe you eventually came around to agreeing that this made sense. "catch ($e)" could get an object in $e, while $@ would remain a string. (You did this through the creation of a hypothetical ${^EXCEPTION}, but I think it's largely immaterial.)
This likely means that try/catch remain experimental a bit longer, but also seems well worth it to me.
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rjbs
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