I came across this, expecting it to be a typo for $@
:
use strict;
use warnings;
eval {
my $error = Not::Here->new();
};
warn @$;
And to my surprise it outputs this:
Can't locate object method "new" via package "Not::Here" (perhaps you forgot to load "Not::Here"?) at dollar_array.pl line 6. ...caught at dollar_array.pl line 9.
I'm unable to find any information about @$
, and it's not listed on perlvar, nor in eval
Since the output show caught at ...
, it seems that this is something in the exception handling of perl.
@$
has no meaning (yet) in Perl. It exists because$$
exists (for each special variable "sigil-char", all other "another_sigil-char" variables exist). Therefore,warn
gets no arguments - you can verify that by using justwarn;
- you'll get the same output.Now, let's read the documentation for warn:
$@
contains the exception from theeval
, so the behaviour is expected.