[perl #4350] do and eval sometimes don't clear $@

On Tue Jul 15 23:51:58 2003, schwern wrote:
> 
> The second case, do EXPR failing to load a file not clearing $@, has
> not been fixed.  It feels like a bug and not merely a bad analogy.

Here's the second case as a one-liner:

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perl -e 'eval { die "should not see this\n" };do "no such file";warn
"$@" if $@;'
should not see this

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Is there anyone who could take this older ticket on?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan




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• [perl #4350] do and eval sometimes don't clear $@ by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #4350] do and eval sometimes don't clear $@ by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #4350] do and eval sometimes don't clear $@ by David Nicol
• Re: [perl #4350] do and eval sometimes don't clear $@ by David Nicol