Try-Tiny-0.29

[p5sagit/Try-Tiny.git] / README.pod

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@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-Try::Tiny - minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
+Try::Tiny - Minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-version 0.23
+version 0.29
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -199,8 +199,10 @@ not yet handled.
 C<$@> must be properly localized before invoking C<eval> in order to avoid this
 issue.
 
-More specifically, C<$@> is clobbered at the beginning of the C<eval>, which
-also makes it impossible to capture the previous error before you die (for
+More specifically,
+L<before Perl version 5.14.0|perl5140delta/"Exception Handling">
+C<$@> was clobbered at the beginning of the C<eval>, which
+also made it impossible to capture the previous error before you die (for
 instance when making exception objects with error stacks).
 
 For this reason C<try> will actually set C<$@> to its previous value (the one
@@ -243,7 +245,7 @@ because due to the previous caveats it may have been unset.
 C<$@> could also be an overloaded error object that evaluates to false, but
 that's asking for trouble anyway.
 
-The classic failure mode is:
+The classic failure mode (fixed in L<Perl 5.14.0|perl5140delta/"Exception Handling">) is:
 
   sub Object::DESTROY {
     eval { ... }
@@ -279,9 +281,11 @@ be sure the C<eval> was aborted due to an error:
 This is because an C<eval> that caught a C<die> will always return a false
 value.
 
-=head1 SHINY SYNTAX
+=head1 ALTERNATE SYNTAX
 
-Using Perl 5.10 you can use L<perlsyn/"Switch statements">.
+Using Perl 5.10 you can use L<perlsyn/"Switch statements"> (but please don't,
+because that syntax has since been deprecated because there was too much
+unexpected magical behaviour).
 
 =for stopwords topicalizer
 
@@ -426,8 +430,8 @@ confusing behavior:
     }
   }
 
-Note that this behavior was changed once again in L<Perl5 version 18
-|https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#given-now-aliases-the-global-_>.
+Note that this behavior was changed once again in
+L<Perl5 version 18|https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#given-now-aliases-the-global-_>.
 However, since the entirety of lexical C<$_> is now L<considered experimental
 |https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#Lexical-_-is-now-experimental>, it
 is unclear whether the new version 18 behavior is final.
@@ -478,10 +482,6 @@ Or read the source:
 
 L<http://web.archive.org/web/20100305133605/http://nothingmuch.woobling.org/talks/yapc_asia_2009/try_tiny.yml>
 
-=head1 VERSION CONTROL
-
-L<http://github.com/doy/try-tiny/>
-
 =head1 SUPPORT
 
 Bugs may be submitted through L<the RT bug tracker|https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Try-Tiny>
@@ -503,17 +503,17 @@ Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
 
 =head1 CONTRIBUTORS
 
-=for stopwords Peter Rabbitson Karen Etheridge Ricardo Signes Mark Fowler Graham Knop Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker Paul Howarth Rudolf Leermakers anaxagoras awalker chromatic Alex cm-perl Andrew Yates David Lowe Glenn Hans Dieter Pearcey Jonathan Yu Marc Mims Stosberg
+=for stopwords Karen Etheridge Peter Rabbitson Ricardo Signes Mark Fowler Graham Knop Lukas Mai Aristotle Pagaltzis Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker Paul Howarth Rudolf Leermakers anaxagoras awalker chromatic Alex cm-perl Andrew Yates David Lowe Glenn Hans Dieter Pearcey Jens Berthold Jonathan Yu Marc Mims Stosberg Pali
 
 =over 4
 
 =item *
 
-Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
+Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
 
 =item *
 
-Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
+Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
 
 =item *
 
@@ -529,6 +529,14 @@ Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>
 
 =item *
 
+Lukas Mai <l.mai@web.de>
+
+=item *
+
+Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
+
+=item *
+
 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
 
 =item *
@@ -577,6 +585,10 @@ Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>
 
 =item *
 
+Jens Berthold <jens@jebecs.de>
+
+=item *
+
 Jonathan Yu <JAWNSY@cpan.org>
 
 =item *
@@ -587,6 +599,10 @@ Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>
 
 Mark Stosberg <mark@stosberg.com>
 
+=item *
+
+Pali <pali@cpan.org>
+
 =back
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE