I would humbly like to report that more than a decade later, dear lestrrat, the effort you put in sharing the results of your educational couple hours proved useful to an established codebase, somewhere in France, where the following patch was just applied to a DESTROY method:

+    local $@; # Allow exceptions to bubble all the way up to burst as
+ a SOAP Fault. See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=154876
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So, thank you.

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