Dear Monks

I've been playing with the try/catch example from Prototypes, but although the tutorial seems clear, I can't figure out why my test code doesn't work: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -l

sub try (&@) {
    my($try,$catch) = @_;
    eval { &$try };
    if ($@) {
       local $_ = $@;
       &$catch;
    }
}
sub catch (&) { $_[0] }

try {
    die "phooey";
} catch {
    /phooey/ and print "unphooey\n";
};

# my test code
  catch    { print "unphooey again\n"; } ;
__END__
output:
unphooey

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Any suggestion why it doesn't print "unphooey again" ?

cheers
LuCa

In reply to pass code block to function (PROTOTYPES) by jeanluca

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