strict 'refs' and subroutine symbolic refs

Taking a break from debugging overload.pm, I was trolling the bugdb...

http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi?req=bidmids&bidmids=19991128.002

And I decided that I'm confused.

  [~] $ perl -Mstrict=refs -wle'sub f{print "f"}&{"f"}'
  Can't use string ("f") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at
  -e line 1.
  [~] $ perl -Mstrict=refs -wle'sub f{print "f"}$b="f";&$b'
  Can't use string ("f") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at
  -e line 1.
  [~] $ perl -Mstrict=refs -wle'sub f{print "f"}$b=\&{"f"};&$b'
  f
  [~] $ perl -Mstrict=refs -wle'sub f{print "f"}sub b{&{"f"}}b()'
  Can't use string ("f") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at
  -e line 1.
  [~] $ perl -Mstrict=refs -wle'sub f{print "f"}sub b{goto &{"f"}}b()'
  f

I don't necessarily think any behavior should be changed, but I
certainly think some documentation is in order. I can't for the life of
me figure out what the exceptions and the rules are here, and I also
can't find mention of it in the docs at all.

-dlc

• strict 'refs' and subroutine symbolic refs by Daniel Chetlin