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Re: this close to v5.6.0

From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
March 14, 2000 19:40
Subject:
Re: this close to v5.6.0
Message ID:
200003150340.WAA15200@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
Tom Christiansen writes:
>     Even though you properly trapped them and made them non-fatal,
>     all exceptions raised from within C<eval>'d strings in your own
>     program will be accidentally intercepted by the debugger before
>     you can get to them, printed out with a long backtrace, and
>     then, before being reraised, altered in a fashion that may cause
>     perfectly proper programs to messily explode when run under the
>     debugger.

This is wrong (surprizing, right?).  perldoc perldebug (old one) for details.

Ilya



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