Fair enough. However, the sub is called with inherited @_ and it happens to work.

Same thing with map:

  sub foo { map { print $_[$_] } 0 .. $#_ }
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Update. example code:

use List::Util 'reduce';
sub minindex { reduce { $_[$a] < $_[$b] ? $a : $b } 0 .. $#_ }

my @g = (55, 88, 33, 6, 234, 234, 52, 6, 1324, 22, 1234);

print minindex @g;              # $g[7] == 6
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Update2. One final observation:
I also see coderef passed to the sub when run under debugger. But not when run normally.

For reduce, no. It's not documented. It's a side-effect of the implementation you tested.

For map, yes. map is a not a subroutine; it's an operator. It's not constrained to the syntax and convention of subroutine calls Its argumentoperand is not a sub.

I also see coderef passed to the sub when run under debugger. But not when run normally.

It's easy to see by using return inside the block. It's also easy to see using -MO=Concise.

$ perl -MList::Util=reduce -MO=Concise,-exec -e'reduce { "..." } @a'
...
4  <0> pushmark sRM
5  <$> anoncode[CV ] lRM
6  <1> refgen KM/1
7  <#> gv[*a] s
8  <1> rv2av[t4] lKM/1
9  <#> gv[*reduce] s
a  <1> entersub[t5] vKS/TARG,1
...

{15} eric@dev-eric [~/work/p4/src/main/CC]
$ perl -MList::Util=reduce -MO=Concise,-exec -e'&reduce(sub { "..." },
+ @a)'
...
4  <0> pushmark sRM
5  <$> anoncode[CV ] lRM
6  <1> refgen lKM/1
7  <#> gv[*a] s
8  <1> rv2av[t4] lKM/1
9  <#> gv[*reduce] s
a  <1> entersub[t5] vKS/TARG,AMPER,1
...
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map and grep are very different beasts, cause the block is NOT handled like an anonymous sub but more like a do-block.

  DB<117> sub tst { map {$_[$_]+1} 0..3 }

  DB<118> tst 1..10
 => (2, 3, 4, 5)
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But your code with reduce didn't work for me, it always returned 0 cause thats the smallest index you passed. 1 cause ... ¹

Could you show us an example and tell us which versions you use?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) @_=(BLOCKREF, indices)

  DB<148> @a=  map { int rand 100 } 1..5
 => (32, 4, 90, 79, 70)

  DB<149> sub minindex { reduce { print "@_\t$a:$_[$a],$b:$_[$b]\n"; $
+_[$a] < $_[$b] ? $a : $b } 0 .. $#_ }

  DB<150> minindex @a
CODE(0xa353ea8) 0 1 2 3 4    0:CODE(0xa353ea8),1:0
CODE(0xa353ea8) 0 1 2 3 4    1:0,2:1
CODE(0xa353ea8) 0 1 2 3 4    1:0,3:2
CODE(0xa353ea8) 0 1 2 3 4    1:0,4:3
 => 1
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re update:

thats the interesting part: )

  DB<102> $List::Util::VERSION
 => "1.22"
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and shouldn't your code return 3 (the first 6) ?

update

the result is correct, your code produces the last min.

update

you have the same version of List::Util? strange!

perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
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Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)