> Is "dynamic" here used as a notion of "smart enough to understand by itself where to go look for things before exploding at run-time"?

dynamic in the sense of not exploding at compile-time.

> I think Perl does a similar thing

not really?

Perl looks at runtime into the symbol table of the package. I wouldn't call this linking, but I'm no C expert.

  DB<10> func()
Undefined subroutine &main::func called at (eval 19)[C:/Perl_524/lib/p
+erl5db.pl:737] line 2.

  DB<11> eval { sub func {} }          # created at run-time

  DB<12> func()

  DB<13> p \&main::func                # STASH entry
CODE(0x58443b8)
  DB<14>

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Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^3: New Discovery!!! (sub call without parentheses) by LanX
in thread New Discovery!!! (sub call without parentheses) by harangzsolt33

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