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in thread To return and/or not?

Seems a strange decision.
Not really. It make the famous
open my $IN, '<', $filename or die "Cannot open $filename: $!\n";

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possible.

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Re^4: To return and/or not?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 08, 2011 at 10:10 UTC
    How would lowering the precedence of 'return' stop that from working?
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      Operators have different precedence, not the commands. See perlop.
      Updated.
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