in reply to return if defined

Another possibility...

use PerlX::Perform; use return::thence; sub my_find_or_create { # ... perform { return::thence $_ } wherever $self->find_by_something(@arg +s); # ... }
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'