Good call. Perl's << is a bit different from the shell's, so you can't blindly translate print to echo in the perl code 
print <<FOO
bar
FOO

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This should probably be mentioned in perltrap, but it's not.

Aside from the quoting issue, it's never going to work the way deprecated seems to want, because environment variables don't get passed from child back to parent. If you want to set variables in your current shell, you need to do something like this: 

$ eval `perl -e 'print "FOO=bar"'`
$ echo $FOO
bar

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In reply to Re: Re: Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by no_slogan
in thread Nested Heredocs and Shell Escapes (code) by deprecated

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