What jumps out to me is the difference between a normal method and a
metamethod; the latter might not do sufficient validation, so you're
catching the exception from trying to invoke .gist. And that just happens
to do the right thing in your case; if you're getting a VMNull from an
implementation-i
I've got a weird one here... a line that looks like it does
nothing significant is needed for the code to work.
If the line below marked "The Mystery Line" is commented out,
you just get the error:
===SORRY!===
Cannot look up attributes in a VMNull type object
Augment::Util:
class Recompos
.WHAT gives you the actual type, whereas .^name gives you a string
that is the name.
In Perl6 types are things you can pass around; which is good because
you can have more than one with the same name.
sub bar (){
my class Foo { }
}
sub baz (){
my class Foo { }
}
Brandon Allbery wrote:
> Two issues:
>
> (1) all standard exceptions are in or under the X:: namespace.
>
> (2) .WHAT doesn't show names with their namespaces, whereas .^name does.
>
> pyanfar Z$ 6 'my $r = 4/0; say $r; CATCH {default {say .^name}}'
> X::Numeric::DivideByZero
Thanks. I didn't ge
Two issues:
(1) all standard exceptions are in or under the X:: namespace.
(2) .WHAT doesn't show names with their namespaces, whereas .^name does.
pyanfar Z$ 6 'my $r = 4/0; say $r; CATCH {default {say .^name}}'
X::Numeric::DivideByZero
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:04 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
I was just looking into doing some finer-grained exception handling,
so I tried this:
use v6;
try {
my $result = 4/0;
say "result: $result";
CATCH {
#when DivideByZero { say "Oh, you know."; }
default { say .WHAT; .Str.say } # (DivideByZero) Attem
