Based on the following simple code I expected the output to be something like:
0 foo
calling foo
1 foo
calling foo
..
10 foo
but what you get instead is:
0 foo
calling foo
and that's it, no more output, no error, so the main body of the eval was able to call foo, but for some reason, foo is unable to call itself, and I can't find anything anywhere that says that an eval string is not reentrant...So why can't foo call itself? I'm running perl 5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi. Does this have something to do with the fact that my version of perl is multithreaded? Many thanks for any wisdom you can empart on the subject. 
$e = "my \$i=0;
      sub foo{
        print \"\$i foo\\n\";
        if (\$i < 10){
          \$i++;
          print \"calling foo\\n\";
          foo
        }
      }
      foo;";
eval "$e";
print $@

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