Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from September 1999
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Thread Previous
From:
merlyn
Date:
September 29, 1999 09:01
Subject:
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Message ID:
m13dvx3dxi.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> writes:
Tom> eval {
Tom> local $SIG{__DIE_)__};
Spurious paren here.
Tom> I'd much rather fix this right now than document the bug. Sarathy?
Tom> Larry? Is it toast yet?
Wasn't the consensus to cause an exception to wander upward until it
either hit an eval boundary or a non-undef local/global __DIE__
handler? Then you could have the best of all three worlds (normal,
eval {}, and __DIE__).
--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Thread Previous