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in reply to How to de-reference a coderef?

No, if only for the fact it doesn't have to have a name: 
    my $code_ref = sub {print "Hello, $_[0]\n"};

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Or it might have multiple names. foo_bar might have been imported from another package (or exported to another one).

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