From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:42:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eliminate Scalar::Util usage from private-Error.pm Message-ID: <863bd8nchg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <867j2knckf.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> >>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: >>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> sub blessed { Randal> my $item = shift; Randal> local $@; # don't kill an outer $@ Randal> ref $item and eval { $item->can('can') }; Randal> } Randal> Oops, lose the local $@ line. Just found out this is a broken Randal> thing in current Perls. The rest is good though. And thirdly, ignore what I *just* said, and concentrate on what I *previously* said, becaused my testing was off. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!