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Monday December 31, 2001
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More on $SIG handlers
After fumbling around with $SIG{__DIE__} in conjunction with 'eval', I happened to come across a thread on clpm that led me to a Damian Conway article that discussed this very topic.
His solution was to create a local copy of CORE::GLOBAL::die and use that instead. Seems like a good idea, one that I wish had been discussed in the multitude of perl books that I've read.
Time to test it out now...
Addendum Ok - tested it out. Works like a charm. In fact, it probably ought to be the standard idiom and not $SIG{__DIE__}.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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