Best practices are relative and subjective, but it's generally considered a good idea to avoid using Symbolic references without good reason. Why are you using references in place of a hash, i.e.: 

use strict;
use warnings;

my @names = ('peter','jonah','larry');
my %name_hash = ();
foreach (@names) {
    $name_hash{$_} = "i like $_";
}

print "$name_hash{$_}\n" foreach @names;

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In a side note, while you cannot use my on globals, you can localize their values with local. <-- not really relevant.

Update: A useful link, as pointed out by bart in CB: http://www.google.com/search?q=varvarname&btnI=I;

If you are tied to the idea of symbolic refs, you can use them with some degree of stricture with 

use strict;
use warnings;

my @names = ('peter','jonah','larry'); 
our ($peter,$jonah,$larry);

foreach (@names) {
    no strict 'refs';
    $$_ = "i like $_";
}

print "$peter\n$jonah\n$larry\n";

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But read the link first.

In reply to Re: Assigning variables via looping by kennethk
in thread Assigning variables via looping by markusk

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