in reply to What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
I think the question-mark ones probably seem like they'd be most intuitive. We're already familiar with "?" from the ternary operator; and if you use one of the many CPAN modules providing method signatures, the question mark is often used to indicate optional parameters.
That said, the ~> looks less ugly in real code, so overall I prefer that.
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