in reply to Looking for discussions of "block after or" syntax error
The keyword you're looking for is do...
open(F, "<$somefile") or do { print "Could not open file\n"; exit 3; };
package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name
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