in reply to Re^6: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 (*)
in thread use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20
it is a syntax error.
Depends on your version of Perl. It's called a index-value slice. It returns key,val,key,val,...
And the rest of the post is a straw man.
Showing that sigils don't indicate the type of value returned is not a straw many to disproving that sigils indicate the type of the value returned.
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