I prefer &$thingy over $thingy->().

Aren't these apples and oranges? 

sub t {
    my $sub=shift;
    $sub->();
}
sub u {
    my $sub=shift;
    &$sub;
}
    
t(sub{print">@_<"},1,2,3,4,5);
u(sub{print">@_<"},1,2,3,4,5);
_END__
><
>1 2 3 4 5<

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It's one character less (three less if you're not passing arguments), and it's more general.

More general? Im not sure I agree with that... And im not convinced about the one character less either. Id say that for the below its actually one character more. Especially given the above point that &{EXPR}() is the equivelent of EXPR->() and not &{EXPR} 

do { sub { print 'foo' } }->();
( sub { print 'bar' } )->();

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That's why I also prefer:$$hash_ref{key} = $$array_ref[1];

I class that notational style as a code smell. If I have to deal with code like that the first thing I do is switch it to use the infix dereference operator. And strangely I often find that the bug I was looking for just vanishes by doing so. IOW: this style is error prone and IMO a maintenance nightmare.

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

In reply to Re^2: Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->() by demerphq
in thread Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->() by doran

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