Lea Wiemann [off-list ref] writes:
I'm honestly not too keen on sacrificing time (or code prettiness) on
5.6 compatibility, so if there are no reasons besides the memory leak
to move away from throw/catch, perhaps we can just keep using it?
If we aim for code prettyness, I would say try/catch should definitely go.
They are spelled as "eval" in properly written Perl, and not doing so
makes your program look ugly.