Re: error handling and syntax extension

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol") Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:49:15 -0500

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.errors
Organization	University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
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or AUTOLOAD can be defined in terms of C<catch>
and overloaded that way, rather than being its own
kind of magic.

	catch "AUTOLOAD-$classname-$polymorphicsignature" {...




Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:15:30PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> > If "catch" can be defined DURING PARSING
> >
> > and SYNTAX ERRORS are catchable
> >
> > error handling can be used to define otherwise
> > undefined syntax, becoming a macro language.
> 
> And AUTOLOAD can go away too!  :-)
> 
> -Scott
> --
> Jonathan Scott Duff
> [email protected]

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