with p5, Ive often written

eval {} or carp "$@ blah";

it seems to work, and it reads nicer (to my eye) than

eval {}; if ($@) {}

but I surmise that it works cuz the return-value from the block is non-zero,
for successful eval, and 0 or undef when block dies, not cuz of magical 
treatment of $@.

I gather that ';' is unneeded in p6, and given that $! is the 
'exception'al topicalizer,
is this construct no longer reliant on the last value in the eval block ?

put another way, does the 'topicalizer' reflect the exit condition of 
the closure ?

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