I can't figure out what is going on with this snippet. I have a template stored in a __DATA__ section that works fine. When the same code is stored in a module, the template produces a HTML::Template syntax error. As far as I can tell, the __DATA __ sections are the same and seem top be loaded fine. This works fine: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::Template;
my @html = <DATA>;
my $template = HTML::Template->new( arrayref => \@html); 
print $template->output;  
__DATA__
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<TMPL_VAR NAME=VALUE>
</body>
</html>

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But this creates an error: 
package Foo;
use HTML::Template;
sub run{
 my @html = <DATA>;
 my $template = HTML::Template->new(arrayref => \@html);   
 print $template->output;
}
1;
__DATA__
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<TMPL_VAR NAME=VALUE>
</body>
</html>

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output: 
HTML::Template->new() : Syntax error in <TMPL_*> tag at /fake/path/for
+/non/file/template : 5. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Templa
+te.pm line 2243, <DATA> line 7.

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In reply to HTML::Template in a module's __DATA__ section by Anonymous Monk

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