Is there ever a good reason to use eval()?

Question

It seems to me that eval() is treated with the same disdain that goto is. And by eval, I mean a function for executing a string as code, as seen in

Answer 1

Maybe I use sh and perl too much, but I've never seen anyone treat eval with the disdain that goto gets.

So my answer is: 'eval is suitable when you are writing perl 5 and sh'. The block eval is the primary try/catch mechanism in Perl and its hard to write safe code without it.