I happen to have a use case (and you can argue that it might be best refactored and I may just agree with you but for now, it has to be this way) where we have a couple eval closures within a larger loop and there are times we want to call "next" but within the "eval"s.

I was getting the same error as the OP when I found this question/thread. I then tried the double curly version of "eval" but it doesn't seem to handle $@ the way I want/expect so I tried something else: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @times = (2, 4, 3, 1, 2, 5);

select((select(STDOUT), $|=1)[0]);

TIME: for my $time_to_wait (@times) {
    print "Time to wait is: $time_to_wait\n";

    local $@;
    eval {
        # Don't handle even numbers.
        die '__NOT_FATAL__' if !($time_to_wait % 2);

        this_will_die_if_true($time_to_wait);
        1;
    }
    or do {
        if($@ && $@ =~ /__NOT_FATAL__/) {
            next TIME;
        }

        print "Something went boom! ($@)\n";
    };

    print "Sleeping for $time_to_wait seconds ... ";
    sleep $time_to_wait;
    print "Done.\n";
}

exit 0;

sub this_will_die_if_true {
    my ($arg) = @_;
    $arg //= 0;
    $arg && die "We died!";
    return;
}

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This does not produce the dreaded "Exiting eval via next at test.pl line 17." type errors and works the way I want but I'm reluctant to use this in production as it just seems, well...icky somehow. Thoughts?

-s1m0n-

In reply to Re: Exiting eval via next: is that so bad? by SimonSaysCake
in thread Exiting eval via next: is that so bad? by jplindstrom

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