On 21/02/11 07:20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> If we are going to change things so that everybody uses a
> more traditional "eval {}; if ($@) { ... }", it would be a welcome change
> from my point of view.
A small aside - note the "Dangers of using $@" described here:
http://www.socialtext.net/perl5/exception_handling
To paraphrase, this:
eval { stuff ; 1} or do { handle_exception };
is marginally safer than:
eval { stuff }; if (defined $@) { handle_exception }
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.
Normally it is not a problem, but this is still something worth knowing.
N
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