On 05.07.2017 18:27, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Haven't those issues with eval been addressed in more recent versions of
> Perl?
>
> For example, in older Perls this used to reset $@, but now $@ is retained:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> sub Foo::DESTROY {
> print "in Foo Destroy\n";
> eval { 1 };
> print "Foo has \$@ as '$@'\n"
> return;
> }
>
> eval {
> my $foo = bless {}, 'Foo';
> die "BOOM\n";
> };
> print "eval with $@\n";
>
>
> Returns:
>
> in Foo Destroy
> Foo has $@ as ''
> eval with BOOM
>
Thomas Klausner in one of his posts provided the following link:
http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2011/06/06/unexceptional-exceptions-in-perl-5-14/
>From reading it, I have got the impression that the behavior in 5.14 has
been drastically improved, but that not all problems are solved. I have
to re-read, though (being new to exception handling in Perl).
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Binarus
