[ic] perl5.6.1 and eval hell?

[cfm@maine.com]

We upgraded some dev machines to debian 5.6.1 perl
from 5.6.0 over the weekend.  There are some changes 
in perl that I've not really figured out but thought
a heads up might be in order.  Lots of our embedded 
perl refuses to run.

For example, my dumper script dies now.  It returns nothing.
If I run this I get HELLO WORLD but if I uncomment
#    push @OUT,$@ if($@);  Go figure.
I get nothing at all.  No error, a 1 byte return.
<(3861/1) Read error: cgi_headers: Success>


This page:
# dump.html
# rev 2000-12-21, cfm
[tag op=header]
Content-Type: text/plain
[/tag]
[raw]
{
    no strict 'refs';
    my(@OUT,$type);

    eval {
        for(keys %{*::}) {
            for $type (qw(CODE ARRAY HASH IO SCALAR)) {
                my($a);
               # $a = *$_{$type}; # 5.6.1 no go
                next unless $a;
                # push @OUT,"$_ \t${*::}{$_} $a\n"; # 5.6.1 no go
            }
        }
    };
    push @OUT,'HELLO WORLD';
#    push @OUT,$@ if($@);

    return join '<BR>',@OUT;
}
[/raw]

This minimalist raw perl tag:
UserTag raw     HasEndTag       1
UserTag raw     Interpolate     0
UserTag raw     Routine <<EOF
sub {
    my $str = eval {
        my $OUT=eval $_[0];
        return $OUT;
    };
    ::logGlobal($@) if($@);
    $str;
}
EOF

    
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher                             cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc         208 Portland Road, Gray, ME  04039
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