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in thread The syntaxes @a->[...] and %h->{...} have now been deprecated

Even I also don't know. perl 5.8 release document says...... Using arrays or hashes as references (e.g. "%foo->{bar}" has been deprecated for a while. Now you will get an optional warning.
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