in reply to 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__
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