[Bioperl-l] Grrrr. Another subtle overloading bug ...

[Aaron J Mackey]

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Ewan Birney wrote:

> This is definitely what happens!
>
>   if( $@ =~ /EX/ )  # returns true
>   if( $@ ) # returns false

I believe you, but I can't find where you see this happening.  At the
command line, I get the expected behavior:

% perl -l
use Bio::Root::Root;
my $obj = new Bio::Root::Root;
eval {
  $obj->throw(-class => Bio::Root::Exception, -text => "foobar")
};
if($@) {
  print "Thrown!"
}
^D
Thrown!
% perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux

> I don't understand it fully either, but that is definitely what is
> happening...

Can you point me at where you've tracked it down to?  When I 'make test' I
get a bunch of searchIO failures (i.e. thrown exceptions) parsing the
HUMBETGLOA.tblastx data.

- -Aaron
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