On 27 Jan 2016 11:03 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Felipe Gasper mailto:fel...@felipegasper.com>> wrote:
Unrelated, but, does open() not throw on failures anyway? (Noodling
with the perl6 REPL just now seems inconclusive.)
There have been issue
On 27 Jan 2016 10:56 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
But, what is the point of $! at all?
Convenience. It makes it easy to write commonly-used constructs much
faster.
My mostly unscientific approach to gather usage of try vs. CATCH in the
ecosystem:
moritz@hack:~/p6/perl6-all-modules$ git grep --word
On 27 Jan 2016 10:44 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:32:46AM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote:
[snip]
But, what is the point of $! at all? The exception is given to the CATCH
block as $_. If I want access to it outside CATCH, isn’t the expected
workflow to save CATCH{$_} to a
On 27 Jan 2016 10:15 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
On 01/27/2016 03:15 PM, Felipe Gasper wrote:
So, what *is* the scoping of $!?
Scoped to a routine, iirc (sub, method, regex)
Interesting. JavaScript programmers that I’ve known bemoan that their
language uses function scoping rather than block
On 27 Jan 2016 7:15 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
On 01/27/2016 07:17 AM, Felipe Gasper wrote:
Hello,
What is the purpose of having $! in Perl 6?
The global variables in Perl 5 are a constant headache, prompting
us to need to local()ize variables like $@, $!, and $? to avoid
unforeseen
$! syntactic sugar rather than just expecting
people to do like: http://perl6maven.com/how-to-catch-an-exception-in-perl6
Thank you!
-Felipe Gasper
Houston, TX
