This is another reason why I settled upon qq[] q[] m[] s[][] as my prefered choice of balanced delimiters for quoted constructs. {} is already well overloaded in Perl.

So be careful with what you "think" you know, because you may not actually know it.

I completely agree with that. So much so, I even meditated upon it. It's very easy to fall into patterns of behaviour that overtime become your defacto, without ever quite realising why and how you arrived at them.