"Now whether this increases clarity or adds to the general confusion..."
Now that's a good question if you ask me. Be aware that the @{[]} construct allows you to stuff any code inside the square brackets, be it merely a function call or a loop or an ugly if..elsif..elsif..else sequence, or whatever. That's tempting but you're likely to end up with your whole program consisting of a print statement,one big here-document, and all the rest of it scattered here and there in the here-doc.

I would definitely stay with the option of running the code beforehand to feed any local variable, and then use these variables within the here-docs. Or go a step further and use templating solutions like HTML::Template or the Template Toolkit.

--bwana147

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