I have been beating my head against this for a bit and I feel like I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how eval {} and $@ work. Given the following script with the following following log4perl configuration, I would expect that $@ wouldn't be unset in the middle of the if($@) block. What I'm seeing is that if I call any loglevel method on the $logger object it clears $@. Is this expected behavior? 
#!perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Log::Log4perl;

Log::Log4perl->init_and_watch('yourlogger.conf', 10);

my $logger = Log::Log4perl::get_logger('test_die');

$logger->warn("before eval");

eval {
    die 'foo';
};

if($@) {
    print $@; # I expect this to print "foo", it does
    $logger->debug('test');
    print $@; # I expect this to print "foo", it doesn't!
    print 'after printing $@';
}

print "\n";

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yourlogger.conf: 
log4perl.rootLogger = DEBUG, stdout, file

log4perl.appender.stdout = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen
log4perl.appender.stdout.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout
log4perl.appender.stdout.stderr = 1
log4perl.appender.stdout.Threshold = DEBUG

log4perl.appender.file = Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
log4perl.appender.file.mode = append
log4perl.appender.file.size = 10_000_000
log4perl.appender.file.max = 10
log4perl.appender.file.filename = foo.txt
log4perl.appender.file.layout=PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%H:%P (%c) %p - %d: {%
+X{work}} %m%n

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What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Log4perl swallowing $@ by saberworks

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