in reply to Print statements inside a function call in a here-doc don't work
As you see, a 0 is printed at the place of the subroutine call. That is of course the return 0 from your subroutine.
But the print in your subroutine happens before the print of the heredoc and hence it shows up --as expected-- before the heredoc. You are not printing into the heredoc, but directly to your standard output device!
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