G'day Bod,

When you encounter this sort of issue, you'll often find using B::Deparse, to see how Perl interprets your code, will help.

$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'return $x or $y'
((return $x) or $y);
-e syntax OK

$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'return $x || $y'
(return ($x || $y));
-e syntax OK
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