wildmat to perl regex

[greg andruk]

Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> wrote:

>> (Some day I'm going to wrap a decent perl API over Fluffy's module to
>> access the INN C API...)

> (The problem with your module is that it uses die all over the place
> forcing me to litter my code with a mess of evals and that sometimes
> when an error is returned it's hard to check if the article is just
> missing or if there is some bigger problem.)

I feel your pain.  That extension was first written for a language
with a reasonable exception mechanism, then periodically "ported" to
XS.  Where the XS stuff was used, displaying or logging the error text
was plenty.  So, emulating real exception handling via glue k0dez
wasn't worth the effort.