Re: Calling subs with &

You can also use & for evil purposes like using reserved words as sub names. It's not bad for obfuscation though.

use strict;
&use();
#use(); #this doesn't work
sub use
{
      print "In sub\n";
}
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Re: Calling subs with & by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 28, 2003 at 22:23 UTC
It's not bad for obfuscation though. `package Just_another_Perl_Hacker; sub print {($_=$_[0])=~ s/_/ /g; print } sub __PACKAGE__ { & print ( __PACKAGE__)} & __PACKAGE__ ( )` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]