Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Signal handlers, scoping & control confusion Message-ID: <1991Mar07.163342.13155@convex.com> Date: 7 Mar 91 16:33:42 GMT References: <11708@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1991Mar7.142059.13963@bmers145.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of friedman%chekov@uunet.uu.net: :An 'exit' issued in an eval'd routine is not trapped. IMNSHO it should be. It's true. I've trained myself to use die instead of exit because of that. I don't know that I agree that it shouldn't really exit though. I might want a way out no matter what, and killing myself is inelegant. --tom -- I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented, compiled-in limits. Don't you? Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist