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Re: [1.8.0] perl/Git.pm: moving away from using Error.pm module

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Feb 21, 2011, 12:31 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:02, Nick <oinksocket@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> because it is possible that $@ can be modified (say, by a DESTROY method) before
> the if clause sees it.  The former idiom does not stop that, it just means your
> exception handler is executed reliably.
Note that that DESTROY clobbering has been fixed in later versions of Perl.
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  1. Jakub NarebskiFeb 20, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 21, 2011
  4. NickFeb 21, 2011
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 21, 2011
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 21, 2011
  7. AvnerApr 15, 2011

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