D'oh! You're right... Deparse handled that "fairly ok" (though what it produced is not valid perl) under perl 5.6.1, which I failed to test;)

Under 5.8.0, the part that produces:

sub main:: (&) {
    bless $_[0];
}
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suffers the same fate as the below (which should work in both):

#!/usr/bin/perl
sub :::::: {
        print "Just another Perl Hacker\n";
}
&::::::;
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/Me hopes that one works;)

The early worm gets the bird.