Re: Rationale for $!

[email protected] (Peter Pentchev) Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:44:20 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:32:46AM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote:
[snip]
> But, what is the point of $! at all? The exception is given to the CATCH
> block as $_. If I want access to it outside CATCH, isn’t the expected
> workflow to save CATCH{$_} to a variable, the way my example does it?

Well, it makes it possible to write this concise thing:

  try my $f = open ...;
  die "Could not open $fname: $!" if $!;

G'luck,
Peter

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