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schlep(\%other_foo_bucket => $big_foo_bucket,
            qw[
                camshaft        camshaft
                gearbox1        gearbox
                the_drivetrain  drivetrain
                my_smokestack   smokestack
                _junkyard       junkyard
            ]);

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Rather than qw[] you could use a heredoc and have your routine do the splitting. Then you could have: 

schlep(\%other_foo_bucket => $big_foo_bucket, <<EOT );
                camshaft        camshaft
                gearbox1        gearbox
                the_drivetrain  drivetrain
                my_smokestack   smokestack
                _junkyard       junkyard
EOT

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I want to say this is mentioned somewhere in the camel, maybe not for this exact problem but for something similar.

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Re^2: Bulk Hash Assignment
by tadman (Prior) on Apr 17, 2002 at 20:38 UTC
    Certainly, that is easy from an input perspective, but if one were to have a mapping already prepared, you'd have to convert it into a string before using it. Yuck. qw, despite how ugly it can look, sure works well.

    Still, using here-doc style declarations for function params is a very interesting idea.
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