The exception even happens before the eval block is entered. This is because perl calculates immediate expressions during compile time.

That's only true for older perls: 

$ perl5.10.0 -ce '1/0'
-e syntax OK
$ perl5.8.8 -ce '1/0'
Illegal division by zero at -e line 1.

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(I think it was intentionally removed in newer perls because it could break code even if it's not reachable; consider this example: 

my $DEBUG = 0;
...

if ($DEBUG) {
   $verbosity = 10 / $DEBUG;
}

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in which case constant folding might break things).

(Update: in that last example there is no constant folding at all, because variables are not constant folded. ikegami suggested to use constant DEBUG => 0; instead, which should better demonstrate what I was thinking about).

In reply to Re^2: Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by moritz
in thread Catching a 'division by zero' error with Exception::Class by baurel

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