Re^4: Die inside Try::Tiny blocks

So finally blocks aren't in fact good ways to make sure cleanup gets performed? That's kind of advertised as their main purpose -- but DBIx, for example, reports most errors with exceptions (and I like that style in general).

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Re^5: Die inside Try::Tiny blocks by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 30, 2013 at 00:44 UTC
So finally blocks aren't in fact good ways to make sure cleanup gets performed? They are, but you're talking about nesting code which may throw exceptions in the finally blocks of exception handlers. How are you going to handle those exceptions? Do they have their own finally blocks? This gets complicated pretty fast.	[reply]
Re^6: Die inside Try::Tiny blocks by dd-b (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2013 at 19:20 UTC
Yes, complicated code is complicated. :-) It's frequently the case that cleanup operations can fail, is the thing, and that ignoring those errors leads to especially confusing bugs.	[reply]