I've got a Houdini of an error here. The Camel Book says that this is how you trap fatal errors, BUT IT ESCAPES!

I was testing that constants were really constants as suggested in a review by Neil Bowers and the following doesn't compile. 

use constant PI => 3.14;
eval { PI = 3; };
warn "You can't round down PI to 3" if $@;

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and the execution aborts with Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment

I've tried it on perls v5.16.3 and v5.18.4 on linux. Any suggestions on what is going on here? Have I missed something?

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In reply to SOLVED: Eval not trapping fatal error by Ea

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