On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:02, Nick <oinksocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > because it is possible that $@ can be modified (say, by a DESTROY method) before > the if clause sees it. ÂThe 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html