Do we want to come up with any modifications to the scope of $! (I'm not talking about the dual string-number nature)? I've occasionally been flummoxed by looking at it when there hadn't really been an error (but it's set anyway, randomly it seems); or calling some module method that failed and then wondering whether $! tells me anything useful or not (did the method make a failed system call?). I realize this is very pedestrian compared to the exception-handling stuff we've been tossing around, which could largely be said to render the issue moot; but I thought I'd shake the branches anyway and see what fell out. I'm sending this to -language because folk are probably expecting just exception stuff on -errors; but I think it would be best for respondents to redirect to -errors. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies
