eval {
    die "You're ugly, and your President dresses funny.";
}
if ($@) {
   print "Hmm, got an error message that read \"$@\" ... I wonder why?\n";
}

##</code><code>##

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'