Re^6: Is this DBM::Deep behavior, or something with tie/bless? (ref)

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A few thoughts:

Those isX() methods belong in Scalar::Util (or something similar). I have similar snippets in DBM::Deep itself for the exact same reason.
You need to localize $SIG{__DIE__} within those evals. In doing this for DBM::Deep, I found Test::More does things with die handlers that get tripped up with this.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

Comment on Re^6: Is this DBM::Deep behavior, or something with tie/bless? (ref)

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Re^7: Is this DBM::Deep behavior, or something with tie/bless? (eval) by tye (Sage) on Feb 12, 2008 at 17:04 UTC
Rather, $SIG{__DIE__} handlers need to detect that eval is in effect ($^S -- even though it still isn't perfect). $SIG{__DIE__} is (by far) the 'worse' magic and so needs to take the burden for "playing nice". "Simple" use of eval doesn't need to be made even more complicated. `local( $@ );` is another safety measure that is missing from the simple examples. Quite the mess. - tye	[reply] [d/l]

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