> I'm looking for a Perl6 way to say that oft-repeated, oft-chained 
> two-line snippet up there without declaring the temporary variable.  
> Using C<given> or C<when>, maybe?

I think you're going to have to have some holding space, but $_ should
do it and still avoid the predeclaration. My P6 syntax is still weak,
though. Maybe

  given big_calc() { return $_ if $_ }

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