I cooked up the following one liner 
$ perl -e 'my $type="blee"; eval { print "bad type\n"; print "blee\n" 
+} unless ($type eq "newer" || $type eq "older")'
bad type
blee

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It has an eval in it, because I want to "do two semicolon-separated things" on the left side of an if/unless. What I mean is, if this bit in curly brackets was on the right side of the if/unless, I wouldn't need the eval statement, it would just flow from the syntax.

I never ever use eval, here I just kind of popped it out to see what would happen.

So I guess what I'm asking is, other than having that extra "eval" statement, is there something else wrong with what I am doing here?

Should I fear eval?

And should I fear trying to do more than one "semicolon-separated thing" on the left side of an if/unless statement?

UPDATE:

1) Changed single quotes to double quotes.

2) Obviously, I wanted "do" here. Thanks for helping -- I think I got three answers to my question in under 45 seconds, and not a single RTFM. wow :)

In reply to Should I fear eval? (want to do two things on the left side of an if/unless) by tphyahoo

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