Unless you really need the lazy evaluation, memoization, and what-not, you could use Want directly. Want is the module that Contextual::Return uses to figure out the context. Here's an example: 

use Want;

sub funner {
    if (want('LIST')) {
        return qw/Larry Curly Moe/;
    }
    elsif (want('ARRAY')) {
        return [ qw/Larry Curly Moe/ ];
    }
    else {
        croak("listy type contexts only");
    }
}

print Dumper [ funner() ];
print Dumper [ @{funner()} ];
funner();

__END__
$VAR1 = [
          'Larry',
          'Curly',
          'Moe'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          'Larry',
          'Curly',
          'Moe'
        ];
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In reply to Re: lazily getting around an Exporter problem (Want.pm) by lodin
in thread lazily getting around an Exporter problem by meraxes

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