Thanks everyone for their help! I knew I was missing something obvious. athomason mentioned \($a, @b, %c) is the same as (\$a, \@b, \%c). But is \[$a, $b, $c) the same as \$a, \$b, \$c? All the array elements are references, so I believe the first method would be cleaner.

$a = "foo";
$b = "bar";
$c = "baz";
@list = \[$a, $b, $c];
foreach(@list) { print $$_ . "\n"; }
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Perl appears to set $list[0] to a reference to $a, $b, $c. Is there a less redundant way to say \$a, \$b, \$c?