Re: __DIE__ and exception hooks

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At the risk of being overly reductionist, is it fair to say that the 
problem is that authors intend different things at different times by 
"die"?  That sometimes they want it to mean, "Exit, dammit, and I don't 
want anything trapping this," sometimes they mean, "This here is an 
exception which I intend to catch elsewhere," and sometimes they mean, 
"Exit or be trapped by someone else, I don't care."

At least, that matches my experience.  I do not see how the current die() 
can satisfy all these requirements unambiguously and be 
backwards-compatible - even if you extend the syntax somehow to allow the 
user to explicitly say which form they mean, there will be all these 
unextended forms that you don't want to break lying around out there which 
could mean any one of them.


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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