Re^2: Perl oddities

See Fatal, which does exactly that, override open (or whatever else you want) to die if it fails. The scheme falls down for system, as system returns a false value on success ...

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Re^3: Perl oddities by TimToady (Parson) on Mar 01, 2005 at 18:34 UTC
`Fatal` will be a built-in pragma in Perl 6, and any code which uses the `fail` keyword will fail in the way specified by the caller, which might be to throw a fatal exception, or to return an unthrown exception that is behaves like `undef`, or to cause some form of backtracking, in the case of the pattern matching engine. I'll talk about `system` elsewhere.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Perl oddities by Joost (Canon) on Mar 01, 2005 at 13:14 UTC
I'm actually considering using IO::All - now that is an almost rediculously convenient module. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: Using IO::All by SolidState (Scribe) on Mar 04, 2005 at 22:26 UTC
Don't consider - use it. It will make your life a whole lot simpler. I know it has mine :-)	[reply]