Have you looked at Perl6::Variables ? It appears to provide the implicit dereferencing you want - at least when accessing elements of an array/hash. (Along with other Perl6 variable related syntax.)

By itself, it does not enforce single type use of symbol names, but that could be done with another module.

Update: Looking at it more, it doesn't attempt to translate @array to \@array so passing an array ref or assigning to a scalar still requires using \@array - but, once passed or assigned, $second = $aref[1] will work.

However, even with a means to enforce single type use of symbol names, I still question whether implicit dereferencing in Perl5 would always be safe.

Note: Perl6 has explicit dereferencing as well, using . instead of ->

In reply to Re: Unifying namespaces of @name and $name to simplify dereferencing? by RonW
in thread Unifying namespaces of @name and $name to simplify dereferencing? by LanX

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