Jay Savage wrote:
Dr.Ruud:
Because $@ is a global, it is best practice to act on
the return value of eval itself:
[snip]
$@ is also *guaranteed*--in the words of perlfunc--to be set
correctly. I believe that historically this may not have been the
case: $@ may have only been set on failure and not flushed on success,
but in recent Perls it should be reliable.
And then it isn't. Try a die in a DESTROY handler for example.
See also discussions about @@ on p5p.
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