And in Perl6 you can drop the sub bit: my $block = { say "w00t, blocks!" }; And there are also pointy blocks for neater stuff: my $pointy_block = ->

And in Perl6 you can drop the sub bit: my $block = { say "w00t, blocks!" }; And there are also pointy blocks for neater stuff: my $pointy_block = -> $text { say "$text, blocks" }; $pointy_block("ne@t");