With regard to the do{} you can emulate the behaviour you want fairily easily. 
my $foo=do{ my $return;
           {
              unless ($bar) {
                $return=$baz;
                last;
              } elsif ($bar==1) {
                $return=$bob;
                last;
              }
              $return=fnaggle(fubar(foo(bar($bar))));
           }
           $return;
          };

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As for the eval, MarkM suggested a work around.

With the block form of eval being used mainly as a "try" construct, rather than "define an anonomous sub and call it immediatly with no arguments", this doesn't really fit anymore.

Interesting thought, and I think you have a point there. Unfortunately as we all know theres nothing that can be done about it.

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In reply to Re: return from eval by demerphq
in thread return from eval by John M. Dlugosz

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