if-else and statement-ending blocks?

[Markus Laire]

S04 says:
>A line ending with a closing brace "}", followed by nothing but whitespace or
>comments, will terminate a statement if an end of statement can occur there.
>That is, these two statements are equivalent:
>
> my $x = sub { 3 }
> my $x = sub { 3 };

Does this mean that
if $foo == 123 {
...
}
else {
...
}
is same as
if $foo == 123 {
...
}; # <-- notice the semicolon here
else {
...
}
because if-statement could end there.

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Markus Laire