so we often have beginner level people looking at stuff and implicit return values really slow them down
It would be faster to take the 15 minutes to teach each of them about Perl's very simple return policy ("last expression evaluated is always the return value") than to require every coder in the world to make up for their lack of training.

Even if you could establish policy for newly written code at your organization, these coders will always be looking at code from the CPAN or from consultants that clearly are not going to put in all of your handholding.

I don't want to suggest that coding standards are categorically silly, but don't try to make Perl look like another language in the standard. Lack of the "return" keyword is both idiomatic and commonplace.

It's a bit like demanding that every sharp corner in the workplace be covered with Nerf foam, just because there are some people who walk around with their eyes shut. No, it'd be simpler to teach them to watch where they are going.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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