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in reply to Re^2: why avoid & on function call (updated x 3)
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> are some other examples when you would use the ampersand to refer to a named function.

goto was already mentioned :)

> > ²) some built-ins require & with named subs as arguments, like goto, map , grep , sort

Cheers Rolf
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