You can't take a reference to a list as there isn't a single 'thing' to take a reference to. You can, however, take a reference to an anonymous array. To mirror your examples using arrays you'd do something like this:

@array = ( 1 .. 10 );
$x = [ 'a' .. 'z' ];
$z = \@array;
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$x is a reference to an anonymous array. $z is a reference to an array.

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