Simpler:
if (!eval {
# try
...
return 1; # ok
}) {
# catch
...
}
On Jul 11, 2017 12:06 PM, "Paul Hoffman" <nkui...@nkuitse.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:44:15PM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Thomas (HFM) Wyant wrote:
> >One of the edge cases with eval {} is the possibility that $@ gets
> >clobbered before you get your hands on it.
>
> The possibility of it being clobbered by a destructor was fixed in 5.14.
> (Destructors that do this are considered buggy, for pre-5.14 perls,
> and are individually easy to fix, so the problem is still manageable on
> those perl versions.)
And in perl < 5.14 you can work around it easily enough:
my $ok;
eval {
...
$ok = 1;
};
if ($ok) {
...
}
Paul.
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Paul Hoffman <nkui...@nkuitse.com>
