Fellow monks,

I've always sort of wondered if there was a way to simulate this in Perl due to sheer laziness and hating to type more than I have to.

In Pascal you can say: 

 with bbentry do
               begin
                   name     := "Olivia Paarts";
                   stdcode  := "3214";
                   phnum    := "30001234";
                   yrlevel  := 9;
               end

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and what I'd like to be able to do in Perl is something along the lines of: 

with $anonhash do {
        $name = 'dave';
        $city = 'San Francisco';
        $phone = '555-1212';
        $hobbies = qw( Perl Anime);
        }

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I've been trying to figure out a way to do this but I'm coming up empty.

Has anyone ever implemented anything like this before?

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

In reply to Duplicating Pascal's with statement in Perl for anonymous data structures by Popcorn Dave

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