NAME
    POE::Exceptions - POE class for handling exceptions

SYNOPSIS
        use POE::Exceptions;

        POE::Session::Exception->create(
            inline_states => {
                _start => sub { print 'START';
                                $_[KERNEL]->sig('DIE','death_handled');
                              },
                death_handled => sub { print 'EXCEPTION CAUGHT' 
                                       $_[KERNEL]->sig_handled();
                                     },
                _stop => { print 'END' }
            }
        );

        $poe_kernel->run();

DEPRECATION
    This module is deprecated as its functionality has been rolled into the
    POE core, as of POE 0.33. This module will receive no updates and will
    be removed from CPAN at some point in the near future.

AUTHOR
    Matt Cashner (sungo@pobox.com)

DISCUSSION
    POE::Exceptions extends POE to catch exceptions neatly. A new signal,
    "DIE", is introduced. This signal will be fired every time an exception
    occurs. (For those of you new to the term exception, an exception is
    whenever the code decides to bail out by "die"'ing.) If the signal
    handler returns 1 (as in the example above), POE will assume that the
    handler dealt with the signal appropriately. If the signal handler
    returns 0, POE will assume that the handler does not want to deal with
    the signal and POE will propgate the exception as if the handler never
    existed.

    Caveat: POE::Exceptions will die on its own in the case of a double
    exception fault. If the "DIE" signal handler itself throws an exception,
    POE::Exceptions will shut the program down and bail out.

LICENSE
    Copyright (c) 2002-2005, Matt Cashner. All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
    met:

    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    * Neither the name of the Matt Cashner nor the names of its contributors
    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
    without specific prior written permission.

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