in reply to Re: How do I use a block as an ‘or’ clause instead of a simple die?
in thread How do I use a block as an ‘or’ clause instead of a simple die?

we have to make sure that the last line is always true. Returning 1 does that
Your idiom would jump out of any subroutine you are in at the moment. Just 1; would be sufficient to have a value of 1 'returned' and avoid the or branch.

Forget the above, it is wrong. As per the docs: return EXPR: Returns from a subroutine, eval, or do FILE with the value given in EXPR

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