Re^4: Exploiting Perls idea of what is a number

It does print that, but not because $@ is set. Here's a slight modification:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $value="abc";
my $t=eval { 0+$value };
print "OMG:  $@\n";
__END__
Argument "abc" isn't numeric in addition (+) ...
OMG:
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Re^5: Exploiting Perls idea of what is a number by rovf (Priest) on Jul 09, 2008 at 06:48 UTC
It does print that, but not because $@ is set. Here's a slight modification: Now I can see it! Of course it is printed because it is a warning, not an exception. Now the explanations of moritz and ikegami finally become clear! Strange - I should have seen this immediately by myself :-( Thanks a lot for the clarification. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply]