Hi monks,

A bit of background: I'm using Filter::Simple to inline a couple of methods for speed - I replace a method call with a do block. I started having a really weird problem -  return inlinesub(); and my $ret = inlinesub(); return $ret; would behave differently, even though the function was called in scalar context. I've drilled it down to a small example: 
use strict;
sub bar{
        if (1){
                return do {
                                #do block will return 1
                                if (1){
                                        1;
                                }
                                1;
                        }
        ;
        }
}
sub foo{
        if (1){
                return do {
                                #do block will return 1
                                1;
                        } ;
        }
}

print ( "foo said '".foo()."'\n");
print ( "bar said '".bar()."'\n");

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output: 
localhost:~# perl /tmp/z.pl
foo said '1'
bar said ''
localhost:~# perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

localhost:~#

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This is all on debian - I get the same behaviour in stable (5.8.8-7) and unstable (5.8.8-11.1) - am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Thanks!

In reply to Strange behaviour when returning the value of "do {}" - possible perl bug? by RenalPete

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