Except demerphq is mistaken. Perl5 sigils don't denote the type of result that will be returned.

Of course they do, at least since perl4 patchlevel 36 (or 19 on Atari). The result of the evaluation of an identifier with its sigil may be coerced to something diferent depending on the context in which that evaluation is effective, but the evaluation of an identifier bare of any context depends on its sigil. If that were not the case, sigils would be pointless.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^6: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 (demerphq mistaken?) by shmem
in thread use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 by Anonymous Monk

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