perlquestion cLive ;-) <p>I'm gradually taking over responsibility of a codebase that uses nested evals quite a bit. Sort of like this:</p> <code> eval { callMethod(); }; if ($@) { confess "CallMethod failed: $@"; } </code> <p>with callMethod() having another one embedded, eg</p> <code>sub callMethod { # blah blah eval { someMoreCode(); }; if ($@) { confess "someMoreCode failed: $@"; } } </code> <p>The impression I get is that some error checking is missing and this is a rough and ready way of dealing with fatal errors. It works, but for some reason, it makes me feel uncomfortable.</p> <p>My instinct is telling me to get rid of these evals (while fixing exception handling), but am I just making work for myself? Or <b>should I be embracing this exception handling technique as a tool for faster development?</b></p> <p>edit - added bold ;-)</p> <p>edit 2 - yes, the confesses were originally dies (so that explains quite a bit right there :)