Re^2: hash slice ? No thanks, I'm about to return...

I tend to agree with you, except for certain situations. I will get rid of the return when my function is a one-liner, along the lines of:

sub foo { (+shift)->foo_bar( 'foo', @_ ) }
sub bar { (+shift)->foo_bar( 'foo', @_ ) }

sub foo_bar {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($type, @args) = @_;

    # Do stuff here
}

sub unique { my %x; @x{@_} = @_; values %x }

sub stringify { join '-', $_[0]->date }
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If my function gets to more than 80 characters, including the subroutine name, and/or it isn't a drop-in replacement for where it's called, then I use more than one line, don't directly access @_, and use an explicit return.

(I access @_ for aliasing-type stuff as well, but I'll do it here for brevity.)

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