Re: $Event::DIED isn't doing what I expected

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:21:25PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > <man>
> > If you do not want to continue looping after an error, you can do
> > something like this:
> > 
> >  $Event::DIED = sub { die &Event::verbose_exception_handler(@_) };
> > </man>
> > 
> > I did that and I get this trap message
> > 
> > Event: trapped error: <my_error/>
> >   in Event::timer=HASH(0x85b52dc) --
> >   [...snip...]
> > Event: '?? foo:97' died and then $Event::DIED died with: 1 at foo line 86.
> > 
> > but my loop() seems to keep going.  What am I missing :(
> 
> Oops!  i'll correct the documentation.  Does this do what you want?
> 
>   $Event::DIED = sub {
>      Event::unloop();
>      warn &Event::verbose_exception_handler(@_);
>   };

Yeah.  I thought you might suggest that ;-)

Cheers,

paul

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