Thanks for your thoughts.

Actually, your first suggestion was fine, and it looks like a reasonably elegant alternative to using next. Due to short-circuit evaluation, subsequent functions do in fact not execute, once the flag has become false: 

sub do_foo { print "running foo"; die "err" if $_==2;  $_!=4 }
sub do_bar { print "running bar"; "..."; }

for (1..5) {
    print "-----";
    my $ok = 1;
    eval {
        $ok &&= do_foo();
        $ok &&= do_bar();
    };
    if ($@) {
        warn $@;
        next;
    }
    next unless $ok;
    print;        
}

__END__
-----
running foo
running bar
1
-----
running foo
err at ./test.pl line 5.

-----
running foo
running bar
3
-----
running foo
-----
running foo
running bar
5

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Still, I'm not sure what's wrong with using next from within eval. I mean, you don't generate warnings without a good reason...

In reply to Re^3: "next" from within eval {} ? by Anonymous Monk
in thread "next" from within eval {} ? by Anonymous Monk

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