I'm probably missing something important here, but ... why would anyone want to write

my $res = eval {
 something(...);
};
if ($@) {
  die $@;
} else {
 do_something_more(...)
}
return $res;
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I mean ... if the something(...) does throw an exception, the code catches the exception only to rethrow it unchanged (I checked that with die "foo", die "foo\n"; and die $object.), if it doesn't something more is done and the result of that something(...) is returned.

So as far as I can tell it's equivalent to

my $res = do {
  something(...);
};
do_something_more(...)
return $res;
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Or, if there really is just one expression within the eval{}:

my $res = something(...);
do_something_more(...)
return $res;
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Or not? Am I missing something or is XML::SAX::Base (1.04) cargoculting?

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