The %s are unnecessary, so you can wipe one level of dereferencing there. 

@{ $rhPublicHandles }{ @publicHandles } =
  @{ $rhHandles->{handles} }{ @publicHandles };

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If you're worried about verbosity, you could stick $rhHandles->{handles} into a temporary scalar; however if this is the one and only place you're referring to it in this particular scope it's probably overkill (whereas if you're using it several times it might make things a little cleaner).

Update: maybe play with the formatting and make things line up? 

@{   $rhPublicHandles      }{ @publicHandles } =
  @{ $rhHandles->{handles} }{ @publicHandles };

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In reply to Re: Tricky syntax with hash ref. slicing by Fletch
in thread Tricky syntax with hash ref. slicing by johngg

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