Re^3: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

[phaylon]

The thing is, I would want to use this in a scope as limited as possible. Which means I would end up with:

  my $object = $other_object->get_object;
  my $result = do {
    use safederef;
    $object->possible_method;
  };

At which point I could basically write

  my $object = $other_object->get_object;
  my $result = $object ? $object->possible_method : undef;

Which would mean we'd end up with a best-case scenario where the traditional way needs less code to provide the same. Compare this to:

  my $result = $other_object?->get_object?->possible_method;