Yes, but I was trying to address this part: “Just recall how often the Perl-5-ism exceptions get thrown when writing normal Perl 6 code”
The idea, I guess, is that the proposed error message has the same level of annoyingness as perl5-related error messages. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT < > perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > >> Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages > > > This is a Pythonism (and C and other such languages). Older Perl has the > same behavior that you can't index a string that way, but must use e.g. > substr. You will *not* likely see this from old Perlers; they will reach > for substr. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
