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A block contains 0 or more Perl statements. A block evaluates the the last value evaluated within the block.

If that's the case, then why doesn't the following work?

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $foo =
{
    print "hi!\n";
    my $bar = 7;
    my $baz = 8;
};

print "So, \$foo = $foo\n";

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Re^5: blocks and using braces around filehandles with print
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 17, 2008 at 01:29 UTC

    A block can only be used where a statement is expected, in a control flow statement where a block is expected, or as an operand to an operator that expects a block.

    Some operators that accept blocks:
    do BLOCK
    map BLOCK LIST
    print BLOCK LIST
    eval BLOCK

    In your code, do would perform what you want 

    my $foo = do {
    print "hi!\n";
    my $bar = 7;
    my $baz = 8;
};

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      Thanks, ikegami!

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