No. || and // are two distinct operators. The first one checks whether its first argument is true, the second one whether it's defined; if not, they return the second argument. The difference becomes apparent with defined false values like 0:

choroba@still ~ $ perl -wE 'say 0 || 1'
1
choroba@still ~ $ perl -wE 'say 0 // 1'
0
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