Re^3: Canon concerning coderef calls?

[NetWallah]

Yes - you have understood the sequence correctly.

The relevant document is the "Symbol Table" section of perlmod.

The symbol table for a package happens to be stored in the hash of that name with two colons appended. The main symbol table's name is thus %main::, or %:: for short. ...

Hence "$::" is de-referencing the "%main::" hash, using "$_" as the key. The following parens prvide the "sub" context, and allow the sub to be passed the $_ param.

[jobi]

Ah, so that's how it works...

I didn't realize that the main package was named %main and not $main, so I didn't see the dereference there.

Thank you for taking the time to explain, and thanks to tmoertel for granting us his wisdom in the first place.

jobi - a little bit wiser now.