As long as the only reason for catching the "die" is to rethrow the signal (and thus get correct error code), you could try something like this: 
my $dead = 0;

END { print "END: dead=$dead\n" }

sub DESTROY {
   print "DESTROY: @{$_[0]}\n";
   return if $dead;
   print "die...\n";
   $dead = 1;
   exit(1);
}

my $a = bless [1];
{ bless [2] }
print "at end";

__END__
DESTROY: 2
die...
DESTROY: 1
END: dead=1

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You can catch "exit" in the END block, and use my $dead variable as the flag that tells you that you exited with something more to do. If you wanted to continue after your "eval" catches the error though, then this wouldn't work.

--Dave
Opinions my own; statements of fact may be in error.

In reply to Re: Propagating a Signal from DESTROY by dpuu
in thread Propagating a Signal from DESTROY by topnerd

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