[perl #126631] Stub code or “fail” exits silently

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Code:
fail; say 'hello'

Or this code:
…; say 'hello'

Result:
no output


Which was noticed when I did this accidentally:
my @a = 1, 2 …… *; say 'hello';


<TimToady> shouldn't be throwing that away

Yeah, perhaps.