This is subroutine definition, not a real functionper se. With just a NAME (and possibly prototypes or attributes), it's just a forward declaration. Without a NAME, it's an anonymous function declaration, and does actually return a value: the CODE ref of the closure you just created. Seeperlsub andperlref for details.
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