use Contextual::Return; sub bar { return 'in bar'; } sub foo { return PUREBOOL { 1 } BOOL { 0 } LIST { 1,2,3 } NUM { 42 } STR { 'forty-two' } SCALAR { 86 } SCALARREF { \7 } HASHREF { { name => 'foo', value => 99} } ARRAYREF { [3,2,1] } GLOBREF { \*STDERR } CODEREF { \&bar } ; } package Other; use Test::More 'no_plan'; is_deeply [ ::foo() ], [1,2,3] => 'LIST context'; is do{ ::foo() ? 'true' : 'false' }, 'true' => 'PURE BOOLEAN context'; my $x; is do{ ($x = ::foo()) ? 'true' : 'false' }, 'false' => 'BOOLEAN context'; is 0+::foo(), 42 => 'NUMERIC context'; is "".::foo(), 'forty-two' => 'STRING context'; is ${::foo}, 7 => 'SCALARREF context'; is_deeply \%{::foo()}, { name => 'foo', value => 99} => 'HASHREF context'; is_deeply \@{::foo()}, [3,2,1] => 'ARRAYREF context'; is \*{::foo()}, \*STDERR => 'GLOBREF context'; is ::foo->(), 'in bar' => 'ARRAYREF context';