This is because an C<eval> that caught a C<die> will always return a false
value.
-=head1 SHINY SYNTAX
+=head1 ALTERNATE SYNTAX
-Using Perl 5.10 you can use L<perlsyn/"Switch statements">.
+Using Perl 5.10 you can use L<perlsyn/"Switch statements"> (but please don't,
+because that syntax has since been deprecated because there was too much
+unexpected magical behaviour).
=for stopwords topicalizer
}
}
-Note that this behavior was changed once again in L<Perl5 version 18
-|https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#given-now-aliases-the-global-_>.
+Note that this behavior was changed once again in
+L<Perl5 version 18|https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#given-now-aliases-the-global-_>.
However, since the entirety of lexical C<$_> is now L<considered experimental
|https://metacpan.org/module/perldelta#Lexical-_-is-now-experimental>, it
is unclear whether the new version 18 behavior is final.