Another grook...

I thought it might be interesting to post the first, and a reworked version of this, to show how it developed.
(And this must mean that there's a lot of improvement still to be made...) 

$that_is_the_question = <<GROOK;

THAT IS THE QUESTION
by Piet Hein (in Grooks, 1966) 
translated into Perl by osfameron (hakim\@earthling.net) v. 1.0

 Hamlet Anno Domini

GROOK

to_be (1)
or
to_be (0)

&& print $that_is_the_question;

########
sub to_be {
    $exist = shift;
    $that_is_the_question.=
    ($exist  ? "Co-" : "or no ").
    "existence \n";
    do {not $exist}
}

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And the reworked version: 
$that_is_the_question = <<GROOK;

THAT IS THE QUESTION: Hamlet Anno Domini
by Piet Hein (in Grooks, 1966) 
translated into Perl by osfameron (hakim\@earthling.net) v. 1.1

GROOK
# Unlike the other grook translations, the text is not 
# included in the <<here document above, but is created
# within the script.

push @mortal_coil,"Co-"=>"or no "; print (

    #    #    #

(     &to_be 
    or not &to_be) ? 
    "$that_is_the_question."
:
     $whether_tis_nobler_etc

    #    #    #

); sub to_be {
    $that_is_the_question.=
    "\n".(shift @mortal_coil).
    "existence";  0;
}

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Osfameron

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