Re: $!

Peter Scott writes:
: Do we want to come up with any modifications to the scope of $! (I'm not 
: talking about the dual string-number nature)?  I've occasionally been 
: flummoxed by looking at it when there hadn't really been an error (but it's 
: set anyway, randomly it seems); or calling some module method that failed 
: and then wondering whether $! tells me anything useful or not (did the 
: method make a failed system call?).
: 
: I realize this is very pedestrian compared to the exception-handling stuff 
: we've been tossing around, which could largely be said to render the issue 
: moot; but I thought I'd shake the branches anyway and see what fell out.

At minimum we could lexically scope $! to the current file.  I would hate
to lose the notational convenience of $!.

Larry