Until you want to do fancy things. What if you have an object that contains a hash or array ref? Ie...

$this = {
   _hashRef => {},
   _arrayRef => [],
};
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Then you are stuck doing....

$x = ${$this->{'_hashRef'}}->{'blowMeDown'} 
@x = reverse @{$this->{'_arrayRef'}};
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And that's one to grow on.