my $object = new wierd;
my $value = eval { $object->next_value() };

if ($@) { print "BLAH!\n$@\BLAH!\n"; }
print $value, "\n";

package wierd;

sub new { bless {}, shift}

sub next_value
{
    die "badness";
}

##</code><code>##

BLAH!
badness at ./tstprog.pl line 13.
BLAH!