my $foo = some_func();
    if ('ARRAY' eq ref $foo) {
        push @data => @$foo;
    }
    else {
        push @data => $foo;
    }

##</code><code>##

    my $foo = some_func();
    push @data => @$foo;

##</code><code>##

    sub some_func {
        my $self = shift;
        my @data = 'ARRAY' eq ref $_[0]
            ? @$_[0]
            : @_;
        # do stuff
    }