Re: End-of-scope actions: do/eval duality.

[Glenn Linderman]

Tony Olekshy wrote:

> Traditionally Perl has had both the "do" and the "eval" block
> forms, the latter which traps, the former which doesn't.

In the perl 5 pocket reference 3rd edition page 63, it claims that $@ is
set to the result of an eval or do.  How does this impact exception
handling tests on $@ to determine if an exception was thrown, if $@ can
be set by a do ?  OR is that an error in the pocket guide?

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