From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 21:44:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method
Message-ID: <86r6bjmpqc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4n3iivt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Junio> Perhaps, but except for the use of nonstandard try...catch.  I have been
Junio> wondering if we can move away from it, with the goal of eventually getting
Junio> rid of the construct altogether.

Junio> Didn't we hear from Randal that the construct is known to be leaky?

It'd be trivial to avoid this try/catch.

eval {
  ... 
};
if ($@) {
  if (UNIVERSAL::isa($@, "That::Class::Which::Should::Be::Ignored")) {
    # ignore it
  } else {
    die $@; # re-throw it
  }
}

No leak there.

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