From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:19:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method
Message-ID: <7vtzgfh1um.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <484078C7.7020008@gmail.com>

Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm honestly not too keen on sacrificing time (or code prettiness) on
> 5.6 compatibility, so if there are no reasons besides the memory leak
> to move away from throw/catch, perhaps we can just keep using it?

If we aim for code prettyness, I would say try/catch should definitely go.
They are spelled as "eval" in properly written Perl, and not doing so
makes your program look ugly.