Re^4: BEGIN and compile-time ($@)

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It is more appropriate to test $@.

Oh, I disagree. There are too many cases where $@ doesn't survive. It is more fool-proof (and one of my "best practices") to check the return value of eval "....; 1" to determine whether or not eval failed (and then to use $@ to report what the error was, though $@ might no long contain this information).

- tye

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Re^5: BEGIN and compile-time ($@) by imp (Priest) on Nov 10, 2006 at 19:57 UTC
That's a good point. Could you provide an example of where a failed `eval "use Foo"` does not result in $@ being populated?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: BEGIN and compile-time ($@) by tye (Sage) on Nov 10, 2006 at 20:01 UTC
It usually involves a "broken" object DESTROY method, usually one that uses `eval` but forgets to `local( $@ )`. - tye	[reply] [d/l]

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