Okay I can confirm that otherwise is defined (I think)... I added this to the top of the sub... 
try {
     my ($k) = 2;
     throw sysAssert("test assert");
  } catch err with {
    my ($ex) = @_;
    print "caught by with\n";
    dPrt("warn"," with $ex");
  } otherwise {
    my ($ex) = @_;
    print "caught by otherwise \n";
    dPrt("warn","OTHERWISE:$ex");
  }
  die "got here";

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I didn't get an error about a call to otherwise, but at the same time, neither the catch err with nor the otherwise got called. The err shouldn't have caught it, since it was intentionally a different exception type. but the otherwise should have from my understanding. instead the exception was uncaught, and simply killed execution... Which may mean I don't understand what otherwise is supposed to do... but http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/Error-0.17016/lib/Error.pm says 
otherwise BLOCK

    Catch any error by executing the code in BLOCK

    When evaluated BLOCK will be passed one argument, which will be th
+e error being processed. The error will also be available in $@.

    Only one otherwise block may be specified per try block

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So I am pretty sure it should have caught that... but I am not seeing either print statement in either block, nor the die statement. So the exception is not being caught...
thoughts?

In reply to Re^4: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by rpelak
in thread Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by rpelak

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