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in reply to Re: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20
in thread use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20

I don't think this is a good syntax. I would humbly suggest a better syntax is actually a new operator. Something like this:

But that does so much less than the proposed syntax, also it confuses assignment with dereferencing (dereferencing doesn't imply assignment)