in reply to Re^2: Parsing XML in a __DATA__ Block
in thread Parsing XML in a __DATA__ Block

\*DATA is a real reference (typeglob reference), *DATA is not (bare typeglob).

Those definitions extracted from `perldoc perlsub' (look for \*).

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