I won't comment on the so-called "perlish" style in general, except to make a loud gagging sound and mutter "over my dead body".

However, I don't know why you don't write: 

print <<HEREDOC
Some lines go here
HEREDOC
; #this would be filtered out if I didn't leave a comment

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as merely 
print <<HEREDOC;
Some lines go here
HEREDOC

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The lone semicolon would scare me, and likely get edited away.

Keep in mind that the heredoc indicator is standing in for a complete string at the given location. For example: 

print <<DOUBLE_QUOTED . <<'SINGLE_QUOTED' . <<DOUBLE_QUOTED_AGAIN;
This stuff
is double quoted so I can see my $ENV{HOME} for home.
DOUBLE_QUOTED
This stuff is single quoted.  I can make $10 really fast!
SINGLE_QUOTED
This stuff is also double quoted now. \a \a \a ding ding ding!
DOUBLE_QUOTED_AGAIN

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The statement acts as if I had said: 
print "XXX" . 'YYY' . "ZZZ";

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With XXX, YYY, and ZZZ being replaced literally with the following lines not counting the ending delimiter.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to Re: Perlish Debugging Style by merlyn
in thread Perlish Debugging Style by radiantmatrix

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