Which part is more important? The conditional or the statement? In some cases its one, some cases the other. And if you really want the conditional in front then just write:

($CONDITION) && do_something();
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But usually you are more interested in what might happen than exactly why so that becomes

do_something() unless $exception;
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But sometime the conditional part really aught to go first:

open ... or die ....
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