That won't work. the system dies with a division by 0 error when the 23/0 happens. The or clause that throws your error never occurs.
You would have to either, throw the exception outside of the eval, or override the default die bahavior to throw the exception instead.
Off the top of my head, I am not familiar enough with the exception classes to answer, but I'm sure there are other monks that will.
UPDATE: Actually now that I think about it, your confusion occurs because Exception::Class is more for trapping application errors than for trapping underlying system errors.
A better example for testing would be:
open my $FH ">unwritable_file" or MyException->throw( error => 'I feel
+ funny.' );

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In reply to Re: Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by dreadpiratepeter
in thread Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by baurel

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