Sure it is. Otherwise, you would not have had to wrap your example for loops in a sub to try to make your point.
I wrapped it in a sub because that's one way to put a for loop in a non-void context. Note that the very fact that I am speaking of the "context" of a statement demonstrates that statements can be said to have return values. But also see the reply I'm about to make to Re^5: Unhappy returns.
@x = for (1) { 1 }; But, that's a syntax error. Why? Because statements don't return anything.
No, it's a syntax error because the whole thing is a statement that is an expression (one of the possible kinds of statement), and the expression is a list assignment which has the form expression = expression. So all you've proved is that for (1) { 1 } isn't an expression. IMO by your argument, @x = do { for (1) { 1 } }; should be a syntax error, too, and it isn't.

In reply to Re^7: Unhappy returns by ysth
in thread Unhappy returns by tlm

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