Re: RFC 80 (v1): Exception objects and classes for builtins

[Graham Barr]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:34:00AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> I support the idea of renaming the block eval as die, and leaving eval
                                                   ^^^

That would be interesting :)

> for string eval.
> 
> But I'm against the idea of implicit rethrowing in any case.
> 
> Sure, other languages do it, but perl doesn't, and personally I think
> it's a better paradigm. 
> 
> If you really want to rethrow unhandled exceptions, you can always
> 
>       catch { die }

I have an ally :)

Graham.