Re^7: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 (demerphq mistaken?)

[tobyink]

The exception would be method calls.

$object->foo() # $-sigil, but does this return a scalar?

Obviously this is bracketed as:

($object)->foo()

... so the sigil does make sense: that particular subexpression returns a scalar. However, the expression as a whole could return a list.

Some people argue that method calls should always return a scalar; if you need to return more than one result, return an arrayref.

[ikegami]

Some people argue that method calls should always return a scalar; if you need to return more than one result, return an arrayref.

Ironically, these are the people who would benefit the most from ->@*.