Again, a fascinating discussion on PerlMonks. To me, it is completely incomprehensible, why there are such strong opinions put forward.

After all, no change to the language is required, there is no performance implication to anyone who does not want to make use of this proposal. No existing feature of the language will be disabled or discarded. Everything is legal Perl since long time.

Just a clash of philosophies.

No need to get excited.

Calm down, fellow monks.

P.S.: If one could now find out how postfix dereference can be done this way, we can end another fruitless discussion.

P.P.S.: Like this (ugly)

my $asArray = sub { @{ $_[0] } };
my $aref = [ 1, 2, 3 ];
print "$_\n" for $aref->$asArray;

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In reply to Re: Autoboxing ... "Yes We Can" ( or how I learned to love TIMTOWTDI ;) by hdb
in thread Autoboxing ... "Yes We Can" ( or how I learned to love TIMTOWTDI ;) by LanX

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