Re: Turn 'em on! (was Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN)

[Peter Scott]

At 03:56 AM 3/1/01 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>A friend of mine was talking about how old WWII era analog fire
>computers, mechanical devices which calculated how much powder and at
>what angle a ship's main guns must be fired at.  They had a special
>switch, "Battle Mode".  In this mode, the computer would never stop.
>It would ignore all errors and just keep cranking out numbers.  It might
>give wrong answers, it might melt down, but it would never stop.  In
>the middle of a fight, you don't want your fire computer to crash.
>
>Asserts use this sort of philosophy, which is why they have an NDEBUG
>flag which allows you to shut them off program-wide.
>
>PERL_BATTLE_MODE environment variable anyone? ;)

$SIG{__DIE__} = sub { die $ENV{PERL_BATTLE_MODE} ? <<"FNORD" : shift};
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb  1 2000, 16:32:16)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux 
(egcs- on $^O
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
FNORD

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies