assigns the anon sub to a typeglob

that's true.

*{'\''}

nearly. The name of the typeglob is \'\n, that is: Backslash-SingleQuote-Newline (that means you can have sub-names in perl that contain a Newline!)

So, what happens is:

*{'\' 
'}=sub{die 'just another perl hacker '};
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Assign the anon sub to the typeglob \'\n.

bless&{'\'
'}
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bless something. But what? The return value of the soubroutine \'\n.

So the sub gets called. But it dies with the error-message 'just another Perl hacker'. Because the message ends in a newline, the ", at scriptname line blabla"-part is skipped.

As the script dies here, bless is actually never executed.

Resumee:

• you can put newlines (or nearly anything else) in var-names using typeglobs
• you can print without printing using die "message\n"

--
#!/usr/bin/perl
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
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