Re: __DIE__ and exception hooks

[pete@horus.cix.co.uk (Pete Jordan)]

Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net> wrote:

> The only other thing I have been known to (ab)use __DIE__ for is to get 
> the caller() chain from where die actually happened, back to the nearest
> enclosing eval {}.

Eeep. Forgot about that... my C<$SIG{__DIE__}> handler just munges the 
error text before C<goto &raise>. It's C<raise> that tunnels up stack 
frames.

Pete
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>

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