Re: A common base exception object for Perl - RFC

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
    Larry> That's the plan.

I remember that being the plan.  I also remember volunteering for that
plan (tuits, oh tuits, wherefore art thou, tuits?). :/

I was more wondering if Pete knew that was the plan :)

[...]

    Larry> It could be made to stay an object, if $@->STRINGIFY
    Larry> returns an lvalue.  That probably makes more sense than
    Larry> denaturing $@, since other code may rely on $@ remaining an
    Larry> object.

    Larry> Larry

My immediate reaction was to make $@ read-only, but then I remembered
I was the one who woke the Backward Compatibility police up. :)

I think applying substitution (as opposed to just applying a regex)
should mean that all bets are off about $@ being an object.  If you're
playing games with the text in $@, you're probably doing other
maliciousness too that is also going to break in the face of
$@-as-object.

-- 
Stephen

"And what do we burn apart from witches?"... "More witches!"

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References to:

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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