update: sorry about not using a spoiler tag...

% stephan@armen (/home/stephan) %
% perl -we ' *{"11abc"} = sub { print q[ok] }; *{"11abc"}{CODE}->()'
ok

% stephan@armen (/home/stephan) %
% perl -we ' *{"11abc"} = sub { print q[ok] }; &{*{"11abc"}}()'
ok
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You can't just omit the braces, but you can do this instead:

*{"11abc"}->(); or &{"11abc"}();

The first one works because you can dereference the glob like any of a scalar, array, hash, code, io, or glob reference. That is, when you do this, you don't explicitly need to take the right part of the glob with the *foo{THING} notation.

The second should be obvious.

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