I came across something quite strange in a cow-orkers perl that I found both unusual, and slightly confused me as to why it works. Rather than using the familiar: 
print <<EOTEXT;
mumble mumble rhubarb
EOTEXT

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they write them like: 
print <<EOTEXT
mumble mumble rhubarb
EOTEXT
;

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So firstly, does anyone else use this style, or know where it starts ? A quick supersearch didn't show up anything pertinent, is there some set of tutorials that prefers the other method ?

And secondly, why does this form compile, it seems to accept EOTEXT (or whatever marker is used) as some sort of quoting, but I've not seen any explanation as to why it would.

the hatter

Edit by tye to reduce "\n"x5 (probably due to browser quirk)

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