Gerd (>): > There is a problem with the Rakudo "open" function. [It dies on failure.]
By my understanding, that's one of those known differences between Rakudo and the spec. (The spec isn't very explicit about whether open should die or not, but S03 contains the line my $*OUT ::= open($file, :w) || die $!; which would be quite redundant if &open died on failure. Also, when the spec isn't explicit about things from Perl 5, the assumption is that they work the same.) The perl.org RT has been down for a few days now, so I can't confirm that there's a ticket in there about this. Anyway, compared to all the other things we Rakudo users have to work around to make a program run, this one is quite mild. :-P Just put your &open call in a 'try' block. // Carl
