Arunbear's answer is a good one. I'd add that you want to be sure you know why you want to use Exception::Class. If you aren't planning to handle various exceptions, you almost might as well define some standard error messages and just die with them -- but then the major advantage of Exception::Class is that it's easier/saner/maintainable to determine what type of error occured from an object type than from parsing the error message.

You want to consider the right place to use eval. Do you want to:

• handle exceptions yourself
• allow end-users to manage exceptions

You should wrap routines with eval when you either know what the fallback behavior should be or you need to exit more gracefully than just allowing the program to die. (That's all the throw is -- just a die with an Exception::Class object instead of an error message.) And you want to wrap it at the right point for the error to be handled. That means probably not wrapping every little call, but rather wrapping as high up in the calling stack as possible:

use Exception::Class::TryCatch;

sub user_input_loop() {

  USER_INPUT:
  while ( my $line = <> ) {
      # try the command
      eval {  process_command( $line ) };

      # catch any error
      if( catch my $err ) {
          if( $err->isa('MyErr::Recoverable') ) { 
              warn "Input error: $err\n"; 
              next USER_INPUT;
          }
          else {  # not recoverable
              warn "Unrecoverable error: $err\n";
              $err->rethrow;
          }
      }    
  }
 
  print "Exiting normally\n";
}
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You want to leave it to your end-users when the right thing to do in response to an error condition is up to them. Or you can stage it: catch the exception, do some cleanup, then rethrow the exception.

It's not really much of a contortion if you consider what an alternative might be. If an end-user wants to know why some eval died, their only other option is to examine the $@ as a string. That's requires similar contortions and probably breaks the moment you change one of your error messages.