Yes, as Anonymous Monk said, one could be lazy, without using any reference to file handles, but this practice has the backlash that is does not work using strict. A solution (but I personally don't like it) is to use a throw-away block in order to conjuring with barewords without strict:

{
    no strict;
    map { print $_ $log } (STDOUT, R);
}

$foo = "bar"; # Error! here we're re-using string
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Update: runrig's one is the best way to be lazy :)