Is there a way to use the <=> operator in a perl if statement?

To start off with, I realize that I can write an if statement with this operator that compiles and runs. I'm wondering if there's a way it can be used to make an if/elsif/else block a little more elegant.

I currently have a block of code that looks like this

 if( $a == $b) {
        # Do some stuff
} elsif( $a < $b) {
        # Do different stuff
} else {
        # Do really weird stuff
}

So there are specific things I want the script to do based on whether the two values are equal, or if they aren't equal, whichever one is lower. It seems like the <=> operator would be well suited to this.