### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
Index: lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/_Group.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/_Group.pm
+++ lib/HTML/FormFu/Element/_Group.pm
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@
     croak "options argument must be a single array-ref" if @_ > 2;
 
     if ( defined $arg ) {
-        eval { @options = @$arg };
-        croak "options argument must be an array-ref" if $@;
+        croak "options argument must be an array-ref" if ref $arg ne 'ARRAY';
+        @options = @$arg;
 
         if ( $self->empty_first ) {
             push @new, $self->_get_empty_first_option;
@@ -124,18 +124,7 @@
 sub _parse_option {
     my ( $self, $item ) = @_;
 
-    eval { my %x = %$item };
-
-    if ( !$@ ) {
-
-        # was passed a hashref
-        return $self->_parse_option_hashref($item);
-    }
-
-    eval { my @x = @$item };
-    if ( !$@ ) {
-
-        # was passed an arrayref
+    if ( ref $item eq 'ARRAY' ) {
         return {
             value                => $item->[0],
             label                => $item->[1],
@@ -144,6 +133,9 @@
             label_attributes     => {},
         };
     }
+    elsif ( ref $item eq 'HASH' ) {
+        return $self->_parse_option_hashref($item);
+    }
 
     croak "each options argument must be a hash-ref or array-ref";
 }
@@ -267,8 +259,8 @@
     my @values;
 
     if ( defined $arg ) {
-        eval { @values = @$arg };
-        croak "values argument must be an array-ref" if $@;
+        croak "values argument must be an array-ref" if ref $arg ne 'ARRAY';
+        @values = @$arg;
     }
 
     my @new = map { {
@@ -297,8 +289,8 @@
         if @_ > 2;
 
     if ( defined $arg ) {
-        eval { @values = @$arg };
-        croak "value_range argument must be an array-ref" if $@;
+        croak "value_range argument must be an array-ref" if ref $arg ne 'ARRAY';
+        @values = @$arg;
     }
 
     croak "range must contain at least 2 values" if @$arg < 2;