> This is because 5.8.1 includes fixes that allow nested evals to still see
> their full lexical scope.

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that change.

> Having said that, I think Benjamin's suggestion of having an eval function
> at the very start of the script before any lexicals of any description
> have been declared, is a sensible idea. It will help protect us against
> any future changes to the code that inadvertently create a closure.

I agree completely, and in fact it was the first thing I tried.

But I have been unable to get it to work at all.

Once I implement the suggested change all reval's silently fail, and I
don't have enough experience trying to debug perl to be able to tell
why they silently fail.

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