Re: A common base exception object for Perl - RFC

[Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:20:20PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Tom Christiansen writes:
> : >Or a prototype of % could guarantee that you don't get out
> : >of sync.  (At the moment, a prototype of % is treated just like @.)
> : 
> : Tim Bunce had an attractive proposal about this, and quite some time ago.
> : You can read it at
> : 
> :     http://www.perl.com/pub/language/misc/bunce.html
> 
> Offhand, I'd say most of that proposal violates the principle of no
> implicit referencing or dereferencing.  I'll not lightly throw that
> principle aside.

Er, perhaps I'm mistaken but I tend to think of the \@ proto, for
example, as doing an implicit reference.

Tim [...just passing through...].

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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