True but B::Deparse has documented options to switch of the reconstruction of if from and-op. I chose one of the ways¹...

I also checked it with B::Terse before posting, just wanted to keep the post short.

Thanks for supporting my point. :)

> But the question is about the if statement.

Do you imply that a post-fix if is not a "statement" like pre-fix if ?

¹)

-xLEVEL

Expand conventional syntax constructions into equivalent ones that exp
+ose their internal operation. 

...

If LEVEL is at least 7, "if" statements will be translated into
equivalent expressions using "&&", "?:" and "do {}"; for instance
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lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~$ perl -MO=Deparse,-x7 -e 'if($a){print $b}'
$a and do {
    print $b
};
-e syntax OK
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