Devel::EvalError isn't really needed with a modern version of Perl (where a DESTROY can't clobber $@).

At work I mostly inherited the following pattern:

    eval {
        ...
        1
    } or do {
        my $e = $@ || 'Unknown error';
        ...
    };
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And I've been pretty happy with it.

We are still on a Perl version where $@ can be clobbered by a DESTROY, but we just exhaustively fix any DESTROY methods.

If you have less control over your code base(s) and have to deal with less modern versions of Perl, then Devel::EvalError might be very useful (it was very useful to me at a prior job).