Re: [MacPerl] MPW, perl and cmd-.

[Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:20:57 +0200 , Tommy Sanddal Poulsen wrote:

>I have a problem when cmd-. interrupting a perl program under MPW 3.5 and
>MacOs 9.0.4. 
>The execution is interrupted alright, but when I execute any perl program
>immediately after
>the Mac freezes and MacsBug is the only way out. 
>It seems to be working just fine on my other Mac running MacOs 8.6. I'm
>using MacPerl 5.2.0 r4.

I don't know about MPW, but command-dot isn't that reliable under plain
MacPerl. It looks to me as if the state isn't 100% restored to neutral.
For example, it could be that not all memory is released. I don't know.

The safest would be to quit MacPerl, immediately after having stopped
your script. I always do, and I don't even have MacOS 9.x, nor MPW.

Stopping a script through command-dot should be only a last resort. It's
not the normal way, not in MacPerl. It's only one step away from
command-ctrl-esc, and two from a forced reboot. So no: I wouldn't expect
Matthias putting a high priority on fixing this.

-- 
	Bart.

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