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> STDERR isn't being unlocalized when there's an unhandled exception. For
> example,
>
> perl -E 'open my $h, ">", \$string; local *STDERR = $h; die "blah"'
>
> doesn't emit anything. That's global scope you say? The following shows the
> same problem:
>
> sub foo {
> die q<why doesn't this show up?>;
> }
>
> sub bar {
> my $x;
> open my $h, '>', \$x;
> local *STDERR = $h;
> foo();
> }
>
> bar();
>
> I expect STDERR to be delocalized before final exeption handling kicks in.
*There simply is no final exception handling*. If die can't find an
eval block in an outer scope it defaults to printing out the error and
exit()ing. This is documented in perlfunc#die. The stack being pop()ed
is only a consequence of that exit. Hence, the warning is being
written before the unpopping of the stack.
I agree it may be better to do final exception handling, but the
current behavior is correct in the sense that it works as advertised.
Leon
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