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Re: my $@ - a proposal

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Yuval Kogman wrote:
> A lexical $@ makes this even easier,
>
> 	my $@;
> 	eval { ... }
> 	if ($@) { ... }
>
> is 100% safe no matter what for that particular error (no local $@
> can touch that particular $@)
>
> It would be interesting to find a way for 'use 5.012' code to
> automatically create a lexical $@, similarly to how $1, $2 etc are
> treated
>   
I don't think you should have to explicitly set a pragma to get this 
fix.  The dual global/lexical setup I described should be backwards 
compatible.
Sam.

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