G'day haj,

++ That's very interesting. Using 

perl -MO=Deparse,p -E 'sub one {1} sub two {2} say <ampersand-part>'

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I get:

one&two      : say one(&two);
&one&two     : say &one & two();
&one&&&two   : say &one && &two;
&&&one&&&two : &two if say $_ and &one;

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Just for completeness, each of those is preceded by: 

use feature 'current_sub', 'bitwise', 'evalbytes', 'fc', 'postderef_qq
+', 'say', 'state', 'switch', 'unicode_strings', 'unicode_eval';
sub one {
    1;
}
sub two {
    2;
}

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and ends with:

-e syntax OK

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And I'm using 5.34.0.

— Ken

In reply to Re: A twisty little maze of ampersands, all different by kcott
in thread A twisty little maze of ampersands, all different by haj

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