From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:03:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method
Message-ID: <86mym7mov6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <484078C7.7020008@gmail.com>

>>>>> "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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