Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Wed 10/28/2020 22:49:24 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings printf "'%s' returned from true clause \n", func(1); printf "'%s' returned from false clause \n", func(); sub func { my $x = shift; printf "x is %-7s", $x ? 'true' : 'false'; if ($x) { foo(); bar(); } else { fee(); fie(); } } sub foo { return 'from ' . (caller 0)[3]; } sub bar { return 'from ' . (caller 0)[3]; } sub fee { return 'from ' . (caller 0)[3]; } sub fie { return 'from ' . (caller 0)[3]; } ^Z x is true 'from main::bar' returned from true clause x is false 'from main::fie' returned from false clause