in reply to Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl?

I feel no. This feature is tiny spec of sugar (for super noobs) , and sugar is no good reason to upgrade :)

If you want a reason to upgrade, better threading/unicode support is what its about.

For the noobs, see references quick reference

http://www.citrusperl.com/, http://www.cavapackager.com/

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