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It's quite common because it's required in the case of open(my $fh, ...), not because it's clearer.

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Re^4: and multiple statements
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jun 06, 2010 at 21:12 UTC
    Required? I don't follow. 
    if (!open my $fh, "<", "filename")  {
    warn "Whatever";
    return;
}

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    is perfectly valid code. There's no requirement that that is to be written as 
    open my $fh, "<", "filename" or do {warn "Whatever"; return;};

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      Perfectly valid code, but perfectly useless because you can't use the file handle you just opened. You'd have to move the rest of the code into the else body.
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