I remember this particular factoid because it has bothered me in the past that the return value of if isn't more clearly documented. I also know there was an old bug report in RT (not by me) to improve the docs that I'm having trouble finding right now as well :-/ I'm kind of busy right now so I'll report back on this later.

Update: The issue I was thinking of is this one: perlsub should be more explicit when an implicit return encounters an if(){} statement, where davido suggests this text for perlsub instead:

If no return is found and if the last statement is an expression, its value is returned. If the last statement is an if( CONDITION ) { BLOCK } construct, the value of the return value will come from BLOCK if CONDITION is true, or from CONDITION if CONDITION is false. Relying on this behavior is detremental to code legibility. If the last statement is a loop control structure like a foreach or a while, the returned value is unspecified.

Fixed tpyo

In reply to Re^3: printing unitialized value of the 'do BLOCK' (updated) by haukex
in thread printing unitialized value of the 'do BLOCK' by rsFalse

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