[oak perl] untrappable perl errors

[Belden Lyman]

George Woolley wrote:
> 
> Belden,
> Well, that seems a reasonable assumption.
> But after reading the two passages I quoted,
> I now believe that return is legal within an eval
> without needing to be part of a subroutine.
> If that is the case,
> the return in the example does not cause an error
> hence there is no call on die.
> Is that what you've concluded too?

Aha! That time what you were saying "clicked". Thanks
for persisting :)

> 
> I'm guessing, you'll be using the eval EXPR form of eval 
> in your self-modifying code
> since the documentation says the eval BLOCK form of eval
> is compiled only once. 
> Is that so?       
> 

That's right. Like everything, though, I learned that the
hard way ("why can't I change this subroutine and re-install
it?!").


> Your "toyings" sound very interesting.
> If there are some key insights you feel like sharing here
> at some point,
> that would be most kool. 
> 

"Read and understand the docs" certainly applies to me right now...

Belden