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From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
October 1, 1999 09:55
Subject:
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Message ID:
199910011658.JAA24645@activestate.com
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:44:56 BST, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Sigh. Does this mean I would then have to do :
>
>eval { local $SIG{__EXCEPTION__}; # protect against 5.6 style
> local $SIG{__DIE__}; # protect against 5.005 style
> ...
> die "__Tk_break__\n" if (some_condition)
> ...
> };
>
>if ($@ eq "__Tk_break__\n")
>
>If so, may I request a new "keyword" ("thow" would seem to suit)
>which does not have all these bells, whistles, and baroque twiddly
>bits? Can we then change "require" to use "thow" when it cannot load
>something ? So that I can test for availability of things and act
>accordingly.
With the availability of coderefs in @INC, you should be able
to do this:
push @INC, \&funky_tk_loader;
Sarathy
gsar@activestate.com
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