Re: [FWP] awww, no fun :(

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Uri" == Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com> writes:

Uri> well, is it still needed with eval/die working? as someone pointed out,
Uri> die allows passing of a string to $@ which can be very useful. 

Perhaps not, and I bet it'll go away in Perl 6, but it's probably
gotta stick around in Perl 5 mostly because it does no harm to leave
it in.

Hmm.  This discussion is happening in parallel on p5p.  Anti-kudos to
Schwern for "multiple posting" rather than "cross posting". :)

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