As you can see, I am hardly consistent.
So? Perl isn't consistent in this aspect either, and I think, rightly so. What to do in scalar vs list context is something you should decide on a case by case basis, IMO. So, my answer to
Therefore I am interested in which of the above (or other variations of your choice) people think is a good default behaviour to standardize on..and more importantly why.
is that I think standardizing is the wrong thing to do. 
# And for something completely different...
sub foo {
  if (1 != @_) {
    return map $foo($_), @_;
  }
  # body of foo here.
  return $whatever;
}

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Why the test on the number of arguments, and the recursion? Wouldn't the following be equivalent?: 
sub foo {
    map {
        # body of foo here.
        $whatever
    } @_
}

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Abigail

In reply to Re: What should be returned in scalar context? by Abigail-II
in thread What should be returned in scalar context? by tilly

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