Re^2: Possible precedence issue with control flow operator

A return is evaluated in the context of the sub's caller.

so this variant

my $result;
$result = something() or croak "Something went wrong";
return $result;
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is safer (resp. only correct) if it's supposed to be a scalar.

Cheers Rolf
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