Re: Why $@ makes me cry (was Re: Generic system() replacements)

[Juerd Waalboer <juerd@convolution.nl>]

Bram skribis 2008-06-21 11:08 (+0200):
> Where the last two could be used like:
>   eval { die "foo" }, $my_err_variable;
> which would place "foo" in $my_err_variable and leave $@ alone.

Not compatible with current syntax in two ways:

1. It's already valid syntax: say { eval 4 }, 2;  # 42
2. Other BLOCK EXPR things have no comma in Perl 5.

Removing the comma solves both.
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