I was just wondering if the two lines between the comments could be made more concise and less repetitive? 
sub my_find_or_create {
  # ...
  my $existing_result = $self->find_by_something(@args);
  return $existing_result if (defined $existing_result);
  # ...
  return $new_result;
}

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I thought one of these might work 
return $x if (defined (my $x=foo()));
# or
defined (my $x = foo()) && return $x;

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but it has to be like this 
if (defined (my $x=foo())) { return $x }

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which I guess I could live with, but it doesn't look very pretty. I think I need some kind of breakthrough, like the day I discovered ||= ;-)

In reply to return if defined by uncoolbob

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