Re: Can you explain the result?

[RMGir]

Sure. The result of your function is the value 1, and that's what you're passing to Dumper...

Now, if you called

print Dumper(\&func);

on the function reference, you'd get a slightly more interesting result:

$VAR1 = sub { "DUMMY" };

I guess my version of Dumper isn't up to decompiling subs - I'm guessing that's expected.