in reply to Re^2: Looking for combinatorics with state (updated)
in thread Looking for combinatorics with state

Yes, it is equivalent. When written on the same line as the opening curly bracket 
{   package My::Package;
    ...
}

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you can see the new feature only moved the bracket few words forward and removed a semicolon.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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