For extra clarity (to me, anyway), I prefer to write it as:

my @stuff = @{$hashref}{ qw(key1 key2 key3) };
# or
my @keys = qw(key1 key2 key3);
my @stuff2 = @{$hashref}{ @keys };
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(with the extra curlies). For some reason I never was crazy about the arrow shortcut here. In fact... umm... how do I correctly write the above using the arrow? I can't get it to work.