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