Wait a couple seconds! What about use vars()? (ikegami's reply to a reply below made me think of it (because he had used it himself).)

Hmmm, you should probably all have a look at

Acme::Pythonic
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from Xavier Noria. There you only have to use one ';', namely in

use Acme::Pythonic;
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:)
Of course, there still would be semicolons in strings and regexes or other non-statement places... Best regards, Udo