Re: RFC 151 (v2) Merge C<$!>, C<$^E>, C<$@> and C<$?>

At 03:55 PM 9/7/00 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > Merge all these variables into one.  Say for the sake of argument that it
> > is C<$!> (for the mnemonic value of "something went bang").
>
>First off, nice RFC. :-) I've liked this for a while now but haven't
>commented on it.
>
>Though you don't say so (or maybe I missed it), I'm assuming that $!
>will be a polymorphic object, meaning that:
>
>    die "Badness: $!"     # $!->STRING, same as Perl 5
>
>Still works? I like the other extensions as well.

Yes, that was in there before and was a casualty of bad editing.  Thanks 
for catching it.

>Finally, I'd vote for $! 1000 times over $@; I've always hated $@
>because of its direct conflict with sh's $@, which is a completely
>different beast altogether.

Ditto.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies