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in reply to What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

...of course even if ~> wins, to make it a true Perl operator we'll need to have the ~> do more than just safe dereferences, we'll need it to do a dozen other things too... so we should have a new poll with suggestions on alternative things the ~> operator can do besides just safe derefs... :)
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