Thanks for the feedback.

I am actually checking $@, just not in the snippet. That is how i caught the above griping about Can't locate object method "make".

In different permutations of things I have tried, I have had it using the base sqrt as well as the Math::Complex::sqrt. It is easy to tell the difference, because base sqrt will return something like Can't take sqrt of -4 whereas Math::Complex will give you 2i

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