Here's something that AFAICT meets your requirements, but since it's Friday evening I might be missing a test case for which it fails*. But as I mention here, it's really still just an approximation.

sub mysay (;+@) {
    return say $_ unless @_;
       if ( ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY' ) { unshift @_, @{shift()} }
    elsif ( ref $_[0] eq 'HASH'  ) { unshift @_, %{shift()} }
    say join "\n", @_;
}

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* Update: Of course, just two minutes after posting I thought of one: say \@x would normally print ARRAY(0x...), this function dereferences it. Like I said, an approximation! I think you might be better off just biting the bullet and writing say join "\n", ...; ...

Test cases...

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature 'say';

$_ = "Foo";
my @x = ("x", "y");
my @y = ();
my $z = "Bar";
my %h = ( abc => 123 );

{
    local $, = "\n";
    say;
    say "------";
    say $z;
    say "------";
    say "Hello";
    say "------";
    say "cool", "world";
    say "------";
    say @x;
    say "------";
    say "foo", @x;
    say "------";
    say @y;
    say "------";
    say %h, "xyz";
    say "######";
}

sub mysay (;+@) {
    return say $_ unless @_;
       if ( ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY' ) { unshift @_, @{shift()} }
    elsif ( ref $_[0] eq 'HASH'  ) { unshift @_, %{shift()} }
    say join "\n", @_;
}

mysay;
say "------";
mysay $z;
say "------";
mysay "Hello";
say "------";
mysay "cool", "world";
say "------";
mysay @x;
say "------";
mysay "foo", @x;
say "------";
mysay @y;
say "------";
mysay %h, "xyz";
say "######";

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In reply to Re: Spotting an empty array as argument by haukex
in thread Spotting an empty array as argument by Chuma

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