Re^9: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at

No surprise. It just confirms that Perl thinks you have indirect method calls where you didn't mean use such. In both cases.

Could you place the following just before your sub and provide the output:

BEGIN {
   no strict 'refs';
   no warnings 'uninitialized';
   printf("package %s\n", __PACKAGE__);
   for (qw( try catch with otherwise err )) {
      printf("%s: exists:%s defined:%s prototype:%s\n",
         $_,
         exists(&{$_}) || 0,
         defined(&{$_}) || 0,
         prototype($_),
      );
   }
}
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Re^10: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by rpelak (Sexton) on Oct 07, 2010 at 21:31 UTC
Well it seems I have stumbled onto a fix... Previously the Error.pm was pulled in by one of my modules (myExceptions), which was pulled in by another module, that was pulled into the one running the code. Apparently that we too many levels or something, somehow (since it works in some cases not in others). But when I directly pulled in myExceptions in the module doing the code, it started working. All said and done, this is better coding this way anyway... So thanks for all the help... the otherwise clause does indeed work the way we thought... and all is well (well the script still doesn't work, but this isn't the reason why... :) )	[reply]
Re^11: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2010 at 06:00 UTC
Apparently that we too many levels or something No, there's no reason to believe the module wasn't being loaded. You simply never imported the functions into the current package.	[reply]
Re^12: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by rpelak (Sexton) on Oct 08, 2010 at 17:18 UTC
I follow what you are saying, but then I can't explain why the other try catch blocks in the same sub tested fine.	[reply]
Re^13: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2010 at 17:33 UTC
Re^14: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by rpelak (Sexton) on Oct 08, 2010 at 19:53 UTC
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Re^11: Can't call method "otherwise" without a package or object reference at by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2010 at 15:58 UTC
Elaborating on the above post: `{ package PkgA; # Loads the module if it's not loaded, and import "foo". use SomeModule qw( foo ); foo(); # ok } { package PkgB; # Loads the module if it's not loaded, importing nothing. use SomeModule qw( ); foo(); # Error. No such function in PkgB SomeModule::foo(); # ok } { package PkgC; # The module might be loaded, but nothing is imported from it. foo(); # No such function in PkgC }` [download] You package is like PkgC.	[reply] [d/l]