From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:31:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] perl/Git.pm: moving away from using Error.pm module
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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.