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Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
May 30, 2008, 22:03 UTC
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>>>>> "Lea" == Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> writes:
Lea> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> [Move to eval/die.]  No leak there.

Lea> I'm not an experienced Perl hacker, but I intuitively liked the throw/catch Lea> method better than the eval/die method.

I *am* an experienced hacker, and every Perl hacker worth their salt understands that "eval/die" *means* try/catch from other languages.

The extra layer of syntactic sugar is *not* worth it.  It merely obfuscates.
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Message 16 of 32 in “perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method”
  1. perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse methodLea Wiemann, May 30, 2008
  2. Lea WiemannMay 30, 2008
  3. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2008
  4. Merging strategy for extending Git.pm (was: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method)Lea Wiemann, May 30, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  7. Lea WiemannMay 31, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2008
  10. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2008
  11. perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev methodLea Wiemann, May 30, 2008
  12. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2008
  14. Randal L. SchwartzMay 30, 2008
  15. Lea WiemannMay 30, 2008
  16. Randal L. SchwartzMay 30, 2008
  17. Lea WiemannMay 30, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 30, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  20. Support for old Perl versionsPetr Baudis, May 31, 2008
  21. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  22. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2008
  23. perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev methodLea Wiemann, May 31, 2008
  24. perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev methodLea Wiemann, Jun 1, 2008
  25. perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev methodLea Wiemann, Jun 1, 2008
  26. Lea WiemannJun 1, 2008
  27. Miklos VajnaJun 1, 2008
  28. Lea WiemannJun 1, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2008
  30. Lea WiemannJun 2, 2008
  31. perl/Git.pm: add get_hash methodLea Wiemann, Jun 1, 2008
  32. perl/Git.pm: add get_hash methodLea Wiemann, Jun 1, 2008

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