From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:03:09 -0700 Message-ID: <86mym7mov6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <20080530095047.GD18781@machine.or.cz> <1212179270-26170-1-git-send-email-LeWiemann@gmail.com> <20080530210531.GH18781@machine.or.cz> <7vd4n3iivt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <86r6bjmpqc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <484078C7.7020008@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org To: Lea Wiemann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 31 00:04:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2Chf-0007Cm-A5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 00:04:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751491AbYE3WDL (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 18:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751198AbYE3WDL (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 18:03:11 -0400 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:29234 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbYE3WDK (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 18:03:10 -0400 Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 856991DE262; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:03:09 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.15.6.14; tzolkin = 2 Ix; haab = 17 Zip In-Reply-To: <484078C7.7020008@gmail.com> (Lea Wiemann's message of "Fri, 30 May 2008 23:59:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Lea" == Lea Wiemann writes: Lea> Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> [Move to eval/die.] No leak there. Lea> I'm not an experienced Perl hacker, but I intuitively liked the throw/catch Lea> method better than the eval/die method. I *am* an experienced hacker, and every Perl hacker worth their salt understands that "eval/die" *means* try/catch from other languages. The extra layer of syntactic sugar is *not* worth it. It merely obfuscates. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion