in reply to A subroutine is a reference to a list of statements

While your proposition may have some intellectual "completeness" to it, there is enough line noise in Perl without taking what is a perfectly understood concept of labelling subroutines / functions / whatever with a descriptive tag. Now any reasonable programmer seeing a code fragment like:
sub foo { # # some collection of statements that do foo # return $status }
will be pretty clear what it is doing. Why complicate things by replacing a perfectly good word (sub) with some cryptic symbol? This is Perl, not APL. How does it advance the language, or provide needed features to the language?