Nifty, I didn't know about _(). Although the example might be better put

$string = _("Blah blah",$d->func,"somewhat");
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since

print "Blah blah ", $d->func, " somewhat";
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works today. What I am worried about is not $foo_bar vs $foo _ $bar but rather the later vs $foo - $bar. When we used the . operator a mis-shift would result in $foo > $bar which is easily seen even when you are skimming code.