On 2008 Sep 6, at 13:57, Larry Wall wrote:
But basically I think NIL is a mild form of failure anyway, so it's fine with me if () is a form of failure that is smart enough to be
I'm thinking () is the non-scalar (list, array, capture, maybe hash) version of undef, which acts like a value unless you have warnings turned on; and undef is managed as a kind of unthrown exception already, thus so should ().
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