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in reply to eval and return values

Your code wouldn't return anything since $foo is lexically re-declared in the assignment within the eval block (something that strictures would have warned you about).

I think you probably meant something like... 

my $foo = eval { bar->something() };

die $@ if $@;

$foo;

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s/with/within/

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Re^2: eval and return values
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 14, 2009 at 20:16 UTC
    ... since $foo is lexically re-declared in the assignment within the eval block (something that strictures would have warned you about).
    No, that's kosher with warnings and strictures: 
    >perl -wMstrict -le
"sub S { return 'Something' }
 my $foo = 'bar';
 eval { my $foo = S() };
 die $@ if $@;
 print qq{after eval: $foo};
"
after eval: bar

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