As an aside it strikes me that warn and die ought to return false.
I would be interested to read you expound upon this aside. I can think of no circumstance where the actual return value of
die is relevant. For
warn, a true return value enables structures such as
warn "Loop failure\n" and next if $_ eq "bad"; that I feel (YMMV) are quite natural.
Update: You could get the same effect as your code above without the sensitivity to warn's return by writing that as
for (1..5) {
eval{
do_foo() && do_bar()
}
and print
or warn $@;
}
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