Re: Dropping the ampersand

To illustrate and reinforce imp and ikegami's posts:

% perl -MO=Deparse -le '@livesys = sort &Con::liveones;'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; }
@livesys = sort(&Con::liveones);
-e syntax OK

% perl -MO=Deparse -le '@livesys = sort Con::liveones();'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; }
@livesys = (sort Con::liveones ());
-e syntax OK
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