That makes perfect sense, and is kinda what I was thinking.. But: 1) why do the Camel, Llama, and Goat all show examples like this, then? Perl Cookbook, pg 587: 
$SIG{INT} = \&got_int;

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..and 2) Why doesn't the hard anonymous subroutine reference also execute the subroutine immediately? Doesn't this say set $SIG{QUIT} to the value returned by sub{ GotSignal('quit'} }; ?? 
  local $SIG{QUIT} = sub { GotSignal('quit') };

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I'm just trying to make sense of Perl's internal logic here.. Maybe that's my first mistake... ;-)
"Non sequitur. Your facts are un-coordinated." - Nomad

In reply to Re: Re: Strange SIGNAL HANDLER behavior... by Clownburner
in thread Strange SIGNAL HANDLER behavior... by Clownburner

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