"what prompted the author to return the results as an array with a hash as the second item? "

Where do you get that from?

"It's kind of confusing me. For a start, if it's a hash, shouldn't that be ..."

It's not a hash, where do you get hash from?

And why is print "$tag @{[%links]}\n"; scary to you?

More than anything it's kind of silly to me, cause all that sub needs to be is  print "@_\n";

update:
"And more to the point, I'm racking my not-inconsiderable knowledge of HTML to try and find a situation where a single tag could have two or more attributes which were links.".

AFAIK, no attributes are ever "links". Duplicate SRC attributes wouldn't be valid HTML, and one of the 2 would be ignored. It's like this, if anyone writing HTML wants anybody to somewhat accurately interpret it, well, he's gotta write valid HTML, right? (right)

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