in reply to Re^3: Can't Reference a Sub by Variable when using Strict
in thread Can't Reference a Sub by Variable when using Strict

That's a bug not a feature :-) 

C:\>perl -MO=Deparse test.pl
sub foo {
    print q[It's all good.];
}
my $subref = \&{'foo';};
&$subref;

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