#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub foo { if (@_) { return do { my $dummy; 1; }; } else { return 0; } } # let's just remove the else sub bar { if (@_) { return do { my $dummy; 1; }; } return 0; } print foo().' '.foo('baz')."\n"; # that was expected print bar().' '.bar('baz')."\n"; # undef