Re: [FWP] Fun with Die

[Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>]

Julien Quint <julien.quint@imag.fr> (by way of owner-fwp@technofile.org) writes:

> >From fwp-l@cfcl.com Mon Mar 26 23:07:16 2001
> 
> > FYI Have you had a look at Locale::gettext and Locale::Maketext?
> >
> > Smells like you're creating a modern gettext, something that uses a
> > sane format.  Maketext is pretty sophisticated and may be overkill.
> 
> I gave a quick look at those modules on CPAN, and they didn't seem to fit my
> needs. Too complex and not very well documented. Moreover, I wanted to learn
> about tie and filehandles.
> 
> > > problem: how to localize messages sent by "die" and "warn"? Even though
> > > they write to STDERR, they do not seem to use the PRINT method, so their
> > > messages are not caught. I'm wondering how that can be done.
> >
> >   $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { warn localize @_; };
> >   $SIG{__DIE__}  = sub { die localize @_; };
> 
> I used this method and it works like a charm! Thanks a lot!

Random synapses are firing and leading me to think that there's some
reason why messing with $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} could be a
bad thing. But I can't remember what the reason is now.

-- 
Piers


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