Re^2: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...

Eh, Why? Whats wrong with:

my $var = "
stuff stuff
more stuff
yet more stuff?
amazing stuf";
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?

( Granted I probably just prefer that because my brain dead editor can't highlight here-docs..)

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