BTW: > @employees->list_active

shouldn't be possible ... neither with autobox

According to the autobox manual, it is possible:

Values beginning with the array @ and hash % sigils are passed by refe
+rence, i.e. under the default bindings:

    @array->join(', ')
    @{ ... }->length()
    %hash->keys()
    %$hash->values()

are equivalent to:

    ARRAY::join(\@array, ', ')
    ARRAY::length(\@{ ... })
    HASH::keys(\%hash)
    HASH::values(\%$hash)
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