Re: Exceptions and Objects

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:25:01PM -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
> RFC 88 allows any Perl datum to be used as an exception.  RFC 96
> proposed a standard exception object base class.  Given such a
> base class, exception handling can do fancier things based on
> instances of derivatives of the base class, and simpler things
> when an exception is not such a derivative.

So what happens when someone writes

	throw 'MyFoo';

?  

Is that taken to be a class name?  Is it a string that's
auto-converted into an Exception class somehow?  Or would that be an
illegal construct?

-Scott
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