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=head1 TITLE
Change C<$SIG{__WARN__}> and C<$SIG{__DIE__}> to magic subs
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 284
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
It sounds really stoopid to say C<$SIG{__WARN__}> on a machine which
doesn't have signals.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl 6 is going to be portable to all kinds of system, just like Perl 5.
Some of those systems won't have signals, so it's time to question why
the warn and die hooks are implemented as signal handlers.
Instead, let's implement them as magic subroutines C<WARN> and C<DIE>
like C<BEGIN> and C<END>. This seems more consistent anyway. Well, to
me.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Call subroutines C<WARN> and C<DIE> instead of the signal handler
versions. Everything else stays the same.
=head1 REFERENCES
None.
