"Exiting eval via next" [perl v5.14]

[Peter Haworth]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:49:49 +0000, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2011, at 20:16, Graham Barr wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:36 , Chisel wrote:
> >> 
> >> # why no error?!
> >> $ perl -M5.14.0 -wle 'for my $i (qw/foo/) { eval { $i.=q{}; next; }; } say
> >> "done"'
> >> done
> > 
> > Because the next never happens, check $@ you will see
> > 
> > Modification of a read-only value attempted
> 
> A more enlightening error would be nice.
> 
> I find myself tempted to next in the $@ check. What's a good 
> idiom for failing out of an eval then?

Isn't that what die or return are for? Assuming that eval is the only thing
in the body of the loop, of course.

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