Having just tried this for the first time, I found the results... er, instructive. I'm sure there's an explanation for this somewhere in the man pages, but I haven't found it yet. The issue centers on how Perl parses the first token following "print".
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use IO::File;  # though you don't have to in 5.8, of course

my %fh_hash;

for ( qw/foo bar baz/ )
{
    $fh_hash{$_} = new IO::File;
    $fh_hash{$_}->open( "> $_.txt" ) or die "$_.txt: caramba: $!";

    # the next line, if uncommented, will produce a syntax error:
    # print $fh_hash{$_} "testing output to $_\n";

    # but doing it this way is okay, and it works:
    print {$fh_hash{$_}} "testing output to $_\n";
}

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