in reply to Using & in function calls
&snafu, as you have it, without parentheses, is actually even more magical: It passes the current @_ toshares the current @_ with the function called. Which you rarely, if ever, want.
(Updated: Yeah, that's better. lodin++.)
The &snafu(@args), &snafu(), and &snafu forms are useful in very rare situations, and the & is a nice flag for just those instances: When I see it in my code, I know I'm doing something strange. Which is also useful.
So yeah, not just aesthetics. Compelling enough? You make the call. But my recommendation for &-form calls is as for prototypes:
Don't use it if you don't mean it!
print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"
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