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ikegami
<blockquote><p><i>i like to read the ampersand in similar way to reading C, where it's literally "address of" operator.</i></blockquote>
<p>It's never anything like the "address of" operator in Perl. In fact, it's often used to do the opposite (dereference a code ref).
<blockquote><p><i>so in that context the example line starting with ampersand would read: the address of an anonymous sub containing code/literal "color" is assigned the sub on the right hand side.</i></blockquote>
<p>Which goes to show your way to read the ampersand is wrong. Nothing of the kind happens.
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