RE: __DIE__ and exception hooks

["Redford, John" <John.Redford@fmr.com>]

What would that mean for my currently running code:
	die [ 1, 2 ];

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Larry Wall [mailto:larry@wall.org]
		Sent:	Thursday, January 20, 2000 7:32 PM
		To:	pjordan1@email.mot.com
		Cc:	Perl5 Porters
		Subject:	Re: __DIE__ and exception hooks

		Pete Jordan writes:
		: > Yes, we do need a module that can be subclassed from for
throwing
		: > such exception objects (similar to Tie::Array et al).
The only
		: > question now is, are you willing to write it?
		: 
		: Yes, but... I'd like to integrate it with C<die> as I've
described at
		: tedious length elsewhere, which make me fall foul of
verboten
		: C<$SIG{__DIE__}> munging.

		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__.

		Larry

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