Re^2: Learning Perl Chap 2 Win32::FileSecurity Help ($^E)

The code is probably commented out because it would't work. $! is magical and so setting its value in that way would have no effect (similar to how the data stored in a scalar is ignored while the scalar is tied).

The proper approach would be to just call SetLastError(...) which makes the error information available in $^E (which might not have been the case when this module was written).

- tye

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Re^3: Learning Perl Chap 2 Win32::FileSecurity Help ($^E) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 09, 2006 at 17:27 UTC
Fair enough. Though inserting return would make more sense than always croaking. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Learning Perl Chap 2 Win32::FileSecurity Help ($^E)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 09, 2006 at 17:27 UTC

Fair enough. Though inserting return would make more sense than always croaking.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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[d/l]