"I should adopt anonymous blocks as a every-day programming technique"

Anonyblocks are just another tool in the toolset. I use them primarily in unit test files to separate out tests of a feature or method where I need to instantiate a new object for a test sequence.

For situations such as yours, I'd probably opt for a function instead of a block that's inline with the code. A subroutine provides the same scoping as the block does:

sub slurp_file {
    my ($fname) = @_;

    local $/;
    open my $fh, '<', $fname or die "Can't open damned '$fname' file: 
+$!";
    my $data = <$fh>;
    close $fh or die $!;
    return $data;
}

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To each their own, there's more than one way to do it!

In reply to Re^3: Beware of global! And bless the local! by stevieb
in thread Beware of global! And bless the local! by alexander_lunev

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