What your module code definitely shouldn't be doing is the unfortunately common but wrong idiom eval {...}; if ($@) {handle_error} - instead, you should do something like eval { ...; 1 } or handle_error;. If you're doing the former in your module, then you need to change the module code.

That gives you reliable detection of errors, and other than that, you could customize your tests to not check the contents of $@ pre-5.14. (Also, I seem to remember some long-standing issues with $SIG{__DIE__} inside of evals, so be careful with that too. And also IIRC even post-5.14 some smaller issues with $@ remained, so to say that $@ now works perfectly isn't quite correct either. Lazy Sunday, so I don't have the references for both issues handy at the moment...)

In reply to Re: Testing a module with eval() where $@ is clobbered (pre v5.14) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Testing a module with eval() where $@ is clobbered (pre v5.14) by stevieb

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