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For one of my modules, I wanted to use Test::Exception in an eval so that I could skip the tests if Test::Exception was not installed. It didn't work (with the syntax shown above) until I wrapped the eval in a BEGIN block.

For those who don't already know, you can always call prototyped subroutines that take a bare block with () and an explicit sub {} if you want.

I've made this more explicit in the documentation of T::E for those who hate prototypes.

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