Fergal Daly wrote: >> Oh, I see what it is. Funny, I just fixed this exact problem in >> aliased.pm. >> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25293 >> >> Its base.pm. >> >> local $SIG{__DIE__}; >> eval "require $base"; >> >> Test::Builder::Module is loaded which loads Test::Builder which >> instantiates a >> __DIE__ handler which is localized and thrown out. > > How is this not a bug in base.pm?
Because it is a bug. http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Ticket/Display.html?id=42163 > I don't see a comment in there to > justify it or explain what badness the author was attempting to avoid, Its for the case where you're subclassing a class which does not have a .pm file. The require will fail, but base.pm can recover from that. But they don't want some global die handler interfering. BEGIN { $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { print "OMG PONIES!!!!" }; } { package Some::Class; sub foo { 42 } } { package Some::Other::Class; use base qw(Some::Class); }
