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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-14 03:29:25 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-14 03:29:25 +0000
commit1a159553554948091ed2e3b1cf5953ca46e63bc5 (patch)
tree6e4174ce55dac65e35f97a6b0955fe6f67e1a71e /pod
parent05fc92f103e6b2c614e47ffd2b374aa5fcc8327a (diff)
downloadperl-1a159553554948091ed2e3b1cf5953ca46e63bc5.tar.gz
minor tweaks to perldelta and README.win32
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1466
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@@ -216,6 +216,13 @@ people to work on those issues.
See L<perlfunc/prototype>.
+=head2 Extended support for exception handling
+
+C<die()> now accepts a reference value, and C<$@> gets set to that
+value in exception traps. This makes it possible to propagate
+exception objects. See L<perlfunc/eval>. [XXX there's nothing
+about this in perlfunc/eval yet.]
+
=head2 Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
See L<perlobj/Destructors>.