Great summary. Personally, I find the following:

@{$aRefs[0]}   @{$aRefs{key}}   @{getArrayRef()}
%{$hRefs[0]}   %{$hRefs{key}}   %{getHashRef()}
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much cleaner and easier to read than:

@array       @$aRef
%hash        %$hRef
$array[0]    $$aref[0]
$hash{KEY}   $$href{KEY}
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Maybe it's just me, but I've been using perl for 4+ years and I have never liked stringing the variable characters one after the other (%$). Particularly epxressions like the third and fourth line in the second group above.

I've always thought that using the @{ } %{ } syntax more clearly and consistently evoked what I'm trying to say -- you can use it with variables, method calls/subroutines, etc. I'm interested if other folks feel differently -- it seems to be a matter of taste rather than an opportunity to define yet another One True Way :-)

Chris
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