NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::TryTiny::RequireBlockTermination - Requires that try/catch/finally blocks are properly terminated.

DESCRIPTION

A common problem with Try::Tiny is forgetting to put a semicolon after the try/catch/finally block which can lead to difficul to debug issues. While Try::Tiny does do its best to detect this issue it cannot if the code after the block returns an empty list.

For example, this will fail:

try { } catch { }
my $foo = 2;

Since the my $foo=2 returns 2 and try throws an exception that an unexpected argument was passed.

But this will not fail:

try { } catch { }
grep { ... } @some_empty_list;

With the above the code after the try blocks produces an empty list. Lots of different things produce empty lists. When this happens the code after the try blocks is executed BEFORE the try blocks are executed since they are evaluated as arguments to the try function!

And this also does not fail:

try { } catch { }
return()

Flow control logic after the try blocks will execute before the try blocks are executed for the same reason as the previous example.

There is one situation (that the author is aware of) where non-terminated try blocks makes sense.

try { } catch { } if ...;

In this case the code will run as expected, the if, when evaluating to true, will cause the try blocks to be run, and if false they will not be run. Despite this working this module fails on it. If this is something that you think is important to support the author is happy to accept requests and patches.

Note that this policy should be just as useful with other similar modules such as Try::Catch and TryCatch.

AUTHORS

Aran Clary Deltac <bluefeet@gmail.com>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to ZipRecruiter for encouraging their employees to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. Without their dedication to quality software development this distribution would not exist.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.