Re: trapping exit

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Kilbane <steve@cegelecproj.co.uk> writes:

Steve> I'm using es 0.83.1, and I've got a user who wants to emulate .logout
Steve> functionality. It's a simple matter to put an appropriate test into
Steve> %interactive-loop when eof is caught, but how about exit? This maps
Steve> directly to $&exit, it seems, instead of having a %exit. Any suggestions?

This was discussed a while back, and if I recall correctly, the
consenus was that exit ought to throw an exception, rather than just
brutally terminate the shell:

  fn exit {throw exit $*}

Then it would be up to %interactive-loop to catch the exception and do
something about it.

- Harald