in reply to Re: die through several evals (last)
in thread die through several evals

Your last solution is problematic; running 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $timed_out = 1;
TIMEOUT_BLOCK_WITH_UNIQUE_LABEL: {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {
        last TIMEOUT_BLOCK_WITH_UNIQUE_LABEL;
    };
    my $err;
    eval {
        alarm( 1 );
        do_work();
        1
    } or do {
        $err = $@ || 'Unknown error';
    };
    alarm( 0 );
    die $err
        if $err;
    $timed_out = 0;
}

sub do_work {
    my $var = 0;
    for (1 .. 1000000) {
        for (1 .. 1000000) {
            $var++;
        }
    }
}

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outputs 
Exiting subroutine via last at fluff.pl line 38.
Exiting subroutine via last at fluff.pl line 38.
Exiting eval via last at fluff.pl line 38.
Label not found for "last TIMEOUT_BLOCK_WITH_UNIQUE_LABEL" at fluff.pl
+ line 38.

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for me. I've been trying (unsuccessfully so far) to implement educated_foo's goto solution as well. The LABEL search algorithm seems to fail when invoked in a signal handling context: 
use strict;
use warnings;

local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {
    goto LABEL1;
};

alarm 1;
my $var = 0;
for (1 .. 1000000) {
    for (1 .. 1000000) {
        $var++;
    }
}

print "Here\n";

LABEL1: 1;

print "There\n";

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vs. 
use strict;
use warnings;

sub go {
    goto LABEL1;
}

go();

print "Here\n";

LABEL1: 1;

print "There\n";

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#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^3: die through several evals (last words)
by tye (Sage) on Apr 23, 2013 at 20:12 UTC
    The LABEL search algorithm seems to fail when invoked in a signal handling context

    Ah, that's very good information to have.

    That idea was hackish enough for me that I've never actually tried to use it. Thanks for testing it.

    Here's a crazy idea I'd never use myself, either: 

    {
    package Medusa; # Fatal to look at
    use Carp 'croak';
    use overload( '""' => sub { die $_[0] } );
    sub new { my $self = 0; return bless \$self; }
}
my $timed_out = 0;
eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {
        warn "Time's up!\n";
        die Medusa->new();
    };
    alarm( $seconds );
    do_work();
    alarm( 0 );
    1;
} or do {
    alarm( 0 );
    die $@
        if  "Medusa" ne ref($@);
    $@ = '';
    $timed_out = 1;
};

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    It works when tested on: 

    sub do_work {
    eval {
        eval {
            my $word = $ENV{WORD} || 'a';
            $word++ while $word ne 'interrupt';
            warn "Got: $word\n";
        };
        if( $@ ) {
            warn "Ignoring failure.\n";
        }
        1
    } or do {
        my $e = $@ || 'Unknown error';
        warn "Failed: $e\n";
    };
}
my $seconds = 2;

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    But that isn't a guarantee that every 'eval' will try to look at $@ after it fails. :)

    - tye        

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      very good idea, but i have a guarantee, that sometimes they ignore error-code checking =(
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