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And an aside, don't use the leading ampersand on subroutine calls; it does things to how the sub is called
Slight clarification: that only applies when no () follow the sub name.

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Re^3: Strange behaviour of m and $_
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 18, 2006 at 01:01 UTC
    ...except 
    $\=$/;

sub print { CORE::print("[$_[0]]"); }

print('foo');   # foo
&print('bar');  # [bar]

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