Yeah, I realized that the other methods probably wouldn't work (and wasn't suprised when they didn't) but I thought I'd try them anyway (and included them for completeness).

I don't want to run afoul of Perl Magic but I don't see how the method that does work (Ugly Hack) could break in the future. Unless, of course, they change it so that the STORE method is never called (ie, you cannot tie %SIG, period). Can you see any reason why it would?

Personally, it would seem to me that trying to replace %SIG's symbol-table entry would be more likely to break Perl than my method. Thoughts?

In summary, can you see any reason why I shouldn't go ahead with the method that currently works?

bbfu
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