Ah, @* looking like a global variable, I can see that objection.

No. No!

  1. My concern is that the @* %* $* constructs blur the lines between operators, sigils and special variables, which is not about globalness or localization, but about language.
  2. I am with demerphq on that: It breaks the original model of sigils completely. And more so if the thingy were just a blank @ sign.

As for your examples: what BrowserUk wrote. I prefer the notation 

my( $state, $zip ) = @{
    $user->GetAccount()->GetPriorOrder()->GetShippingAddress()
}{ 'state', 'zip' };

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because I can read it immediately: a list of variables (my( $state, $zip )) get assigned a list context dereference of soemthing returned by a function call which happens to be a hash ref, and the returned values are accessed with the keys 'state' and 'zip'. Note that the first thing is list.

And I deem this 

perl -le '%* = (foo => bar); print $*{foo}; @* = qw(foo bar baz); prin
+t $*[1]'

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line's result to be two places where to go now and try to forget about perl, perl5, perl6, the Nikolaus Sieht Alles and whatever else rests heavily on my mind.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^4: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 (*) by shmem
in thread use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 by Anonymous Monk

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