What are the common pitfalls when using Perl's eval?

Question

What are the common pitfalls associated with Perl\'s eval, which might make you choose to use a module such as Try::Tiny?

Answer 1

The issues are explained in the Try::Tiny documentation. Briefly, they are:

• Clobbering $@
• Localizing $@ silently masks errors
• $@ might not be a true value