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If the last statement is a loop control structure like a foreach or a while , the returned value is unspecified.

But the bare block is not the last statement.

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Re^6: Short-circuiting a map list. (This works! But ...)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 09, 2011 at 05:18 UTC
    It's not the last statement of the sub, but it is the last statement of the do. What do you think do returns? The value to which the loop evaluates, which isn't defined.
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      What do you think do returns?

      I know what the do returns:

      print do{ { print 'fred'; map $_,1 .. 10 } };;
fred
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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      The result of the last statement inside the bare block.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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        No. You've already shown it doesn't do that in practice (in Re^3: Short-circuiting a map list. (This works! But ...)), and it doesn't do that according to the documentation.

        A BLOCK by itself (labeled or not) is semantically equivalent to a loop that executes once.

        If the last statement is a loop control structure like a foreach or a while, the returned value is unspecified.

        You just got lucky here.

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