Re: Why $@ should be structured data.

2000-08-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
Tony Olekshy wrote: > There you have it. That's why RFC 88 uses structured data for $@. That's a good argument, one that I have no quarrel with. As an enhancement to eval/die, this would make it more flexible for checking conditions. And with appropriate stringification, it is upward compatib

Re: Why $@ should be structured data.

2000-08-23 Thread Tony Olekshy
Glenn Linderman wrote: > > These three recent postings expressing ways to implement the > differences between RFC 119 and RFC 88 are encouraging. With a > bit of syntactic sugar, it looks like RFC 88 can be made to handle > all the cases I care about. Now if you'd just get rid of that > "try"...