Re: __DIE__ and exception hooks

[Pete Jordan <pjordan1@email.mot.com>]

Larry Wall wrote:

> I think you're assuming here that I wouldn't be interested in making
> all exceptions into objects.  I presume that's what you want the
> __DIE__ hook for.  I'd gladly turn all exceptions into objects in order
> to reduce the desire to __DIE__.

That would be ideal - all my C<$SIG{__DIE__}> handler here does for
non-reference parameters is join its parameters, strip out the "at
<file> line <line>" stuff (as I use C<caller> to get that in my
exception code) and C<goto &raise>.

Pete
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References to:

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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