baffled - please explain

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Hi, 
I just came across a sniplet of code in a book I'm reading and I'm not
sure what point the author is trying to make.

The code is:

function my_function ( )
{
      echo 'My function was called';
}


<?php
        function my_function ( )
        {                                       
?>
My function was called
<?php
        }
?>

What are those single opening and closing curly braces doing in
separate <?php ?> tag blocks? What's the point?
The author says "Withing a function, curly braces enclose the code
that performs the task you require. Between these braces, you can have
anything that is legal elsewheere in a PHP script" - PHP and MySQL Web
Development, 3rd Edition: Welling & Thomson.

If the point is to illustrate what this quote says, does that mean...

{                                       
?>
My function was called
<?php
}

...is a syntactically correct code block for my_function?

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