One more thing... This is a nit and I'm on my phone so I'll cite when I get home, but my understanding of the original Larry idealism of Perl is that 'important bits be to the left' (single quoted as it might not be verbatim). If that's the case,  postderef goes against that principle. For me, it's whatever works so I don't care, but it is what it is.

I *think* that's what I've read... I spent a lot of time over the weekend researching Perl.