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by eythian 1800 days ago
It's an array reference. If you replaced the [ ... ] with ( ... ) you'd have an array and use @. This is something I see people new to Perl struggle with, and I remember it taking me some time to grasp back in the day. It's pretty natural to me now, but I do feel it's something of a wart in the language.