Re: What does "}{" mean?

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   From: "Allen, Greg" <[email protected]>
   Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:51:57 -0000
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   It is the secret "eskimo greeting" operator.

   This might reveal what is happening:

   perl5 -MO=Deparse -pe ' } { $_="foo\n"' /dev/null
   LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) {
       ;
   }
   {
       $_ = "foo\n";
   }
   continue {
       print $_;
   }
   -e syntax OK


I figured that much, but then I'm left with interpreting a construct
of the form:

   while(defined($_ = <ARGV>)){}{$_ = "foo\n"}continue{print $_}

                              ^^
                              ??

I didn't think such a construct would be legal.  I'm not sure what it
means.