Re: pascal-like "with" was Re: Default filehandles(was Re: commandline option: $|++)

[Robert Mathews]

Damian Conway wrote:
> This:
> 
>      print <<SPAM;
>             Dear ^name:
>             Your tuition is now due.  Please send in a payment of at least
>             ^minumum.
>     SPAM
> 
> already means:
> 
>      print sub {
>      return <<SPAM;
>             Dear $_[0]
>             Your tuition is now due.  Please send in a payment of at least
>             $_[1].
>      SPAM
>      }

What does the second one mean, then?  Doesn't

  print sub { ... }

just print out a reference to an anonymous subroutine, for any value of
"..."?

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Robert Mathews
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