I have some code which looks like this:

  foreach my $block ($self->get_blocks) {
      my %data = map { $_ => $block->$_ } qw/
        package
        code
        setup
        teardown
      /;
      eval <<"    END";
      package $data{package};
      \$data{setup}->(); 
      \$data{code}->();
      \$data{teardown}->();
      END
      $self->_croak($@) if $@;
  }

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Frankly, I don't like the eval there because it obfuscates the code and breaks syntax highlighting. What I really want is something conceptually similar to this:

  foreach my $block ($self->get_blocks) {
      package $block->package;
      eval {
          $block->setup->(); 
          $block->code->();
          $block->teardown->();
      };
      $self->_croak($@) if $@;
  }

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That's much easier to read and it's regrettably a problem I face all of the time. Is there an easy way to force code to run in a different package when I don't know the package until runtime?

Cheers,
Ovid

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