Re: rmdir question

[Timo Paulssen]

On 03/12/2019 04:46, Paul Procacci wrote:
> On success it return a Bool::True.
> On failure it throws an exception.
> It doesn't crash the program.
> If you are interested in handling the exception, add logic to handle it.
>
> Examples:
> ---------------------------
> # mkdir a ; `which perl6` -e "'a'.IO.rmdir.perl.say"
> Bool::True
> # mkdir a ; `which perl6` -e "'b'.IO.rmdir.perl.say"
> Failure.new(exception => X::IO::Rmdir.new(path => "/root/test/b",
> os-error => "Failed to rmdir: no such file or directory"), backtrace
> => Backtrace.new)
> # mkdir a ; `which perl6` -e "try { 'b'.IO.rmdir.perl.say; CATCH {
> default { 'tsk tsk'.say }}}"
> tsk tsk


Hi Paul,

thanks to your email I found and fixed an oversight in the Raku docs:

it says it throws an exception, when actually it returns a Failure.

Thank you!
  - Timo