Akos,

Send me the code (email is the best). I'll check that it does not
break anything. As you can understand, It's a very complex module.
I'll update the module to the next version with proper credit.

Thanks for being so vigilant.

-Malay

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Horvath, Akos
<horvath.a...@siemens.com> wrote:
> 1. adding some comments :-)
>
> 2. this library is for calculating the lengths of ttf strings. It works okay, 
> but is slow, because it reads and reads parts of the ttf file in every call. 
> This needs optimiziation (effectively, a cache in a bottleneck), which I 
> already did, only want to upload.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Akos
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Matt S Trout [mailto:m...@shadowcat.co.uk]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. April 2012 18:48
> An: Malay Basu
> Cc: Horvath, Akos; modu...@cpan.org; ma...@bioinformatics.org
> Betreff: Re: warning: false alarm, possible bug in Font::TTFMetrics
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:43:20PM -0400, Malay Basu wrote:
>> Thanks Matt,
>>
>> I don't know what Akos is talking about. There is no unchecked eval in
>> the code. The only eval is to check that the input file is readable.
>> If the read call fails then the modules exits gracefully. There is
>> *no* problem with this eval.
>
> Oh. I see Akos forgot to show us the next line where it actually checks
> the exception. Ooops :)
>
> Even so, he clearly does care. Perhaps you should get Akos to add comments
> to make the code more clear so nobody gets confused like this again?
>
> Akos, would that be something you might enjoy doing?
>
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