it's not about $foo->@* it's about $foo->{bar}->baz(27, flurg => gnar_now())->[4]->@* at the end of a long chain of stuff eventually yielding a reference, sometimes you want to get the whole array, or a slice of it, and currently you need to back up and enclose the whole thing. What we've just set up is the filling of the holes left in the current incomplete postfix dereference syntax, which allows only scalar element accesses. Thread Previous | Thread Next