Arrow Operator Oddment

Wherefore does the following code work?

@l = 0..10;
%h = (a => 1, b => 2);

print @l->[4]; # prints 4
print %h->{b}; # prints 2
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My reading of perlop has me convinced that this is an unintended syntactic feature.

   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

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Re: Arrow Operator Oddment by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 03, 2002 at 09:42 UTC
My reading of perlop has me convinced that this is an unintended syntactic feature. And that's exactly what it is. When using the arrow, Perl will see whatever is left of it as a reference. Including if you have something like `@l` or `%h`. Note that you will get the warning `Using an array as a reference is deprecated` in Perl 5.8.0. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
(MeowChow) Re2: Arrow Operator Oddment by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jun 03, 2002 at 09:58 UTC
Deprecated, eh? Somehow I don't get the impression that it was ever precated to begin with... :-) MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]
Re: (MeowChow) Re2: Arrow Operator Oddment by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 03, 2002 at 11:09 UTC
Can you explain that a bit for those less enlightened monks? I'm a bit baffled. I don't see what the problem is. -- `($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: (MeowChow) Re2: Arrow Operator Oddment by bjelli (Pilgrim) on Jun 03, 2002 at 11:17 UTC
Re: Re: Re: (MeowChow) Re2: Arrow Operator Oddment by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 06, 2002 at 04:40 UTC