A new experimental feature has made it into perl, Postfix Dereference Syntax. The idea appeared Postfix, whole-object dereference operators in 2000 .

It popped up a few months ago and made it into a perl release in october

And today ikegami updated Mini-Tutorial: Dereferencing Syntax and I learned of it 

$r = \@a;
@b = $r->@*; # equivalent to @$r or @{ $r }

$r = [ 1, [ 2, 3 ], 4 ];
$r->[1]->@*;  # equivalent to @{ $r->[1] }

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https://metacpan.org/pod/release/BINGOS/perl-5.19.6/pod/perltrap.pod#JavaScript-Traps

Gotta remember to keep checking those deltas :)

In reply to use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 by Anonymous Monk

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