[Israel.pm] setting $!

[Yosef Meller]

Shlomo Yona wrote:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have a function foo() which returns some scalar $s.
 >
 > I'd like to be able to do something like this:
 >
 > 	my $s = foo() or die "foo: $!";
 >
 > I'd like to  be able to assign my own string to $! to be
 > used right after a return from foo()  in case an undefined
 > value is returned.
 >
 > What's the way to do this?
 >

perlvar says you can assign a numerical errno value to it. But whyu not
use Error.pm or something similar? Or use the common method of setting
$PKG::errstr and returning undef? Just curious.

-- 
   "No, I do not contain myself,"
   were the final words from the set of self-excluding sets. :-)
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