#722636 mention how to use $# sigil with array references

Package:
perl-doc
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perl
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Date:
2013-09-13 01:09:05 UTC
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wishlist
#722636#5
Date:
2013-09-13 00:23:13 UTC
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man perlref is missing critical mention of how to combine $$ and $#:

$ perl -lwe 'use strict; my @m=1..11; my $arrayref  = \@m; print $#m; print $#$arrayref'
10
10

By the way, curious as to where $# itself is documented, on man perlvar we see

               ...not the sigil you use in front of an array name to get
               the last index, like $#array.  That's still how you get the
               last index of an array in Perl...

but apparently no better mention in all of the perl man pages.
#722636#10
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2013-09-13 00:34:06 UTC
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jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

It's documented in perldata under Scalar Values, about seven paragraphs
down.  (And yeah, it's not horribly easy to find.)
#722636#15
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2013-09-13 01:05:38 UTC
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RA> It's documented in perldata under Scalar Values, about seven paragraphs
RA> down.  (And yeah, it's not horribly easy to find.)

Ah, right near where he mentions csh (wonder how many kids know what that is).

P.S.
Besides discovering I could use $#$$, I now also find $#{$$ ... works,
    use Data::Dumper; die Dumper ($#{$$p{$g}{members}{data}},$$p{$g}{members}{data}[0]);
so also document that too please there on perlref. Yes it is starting to look !@#$ing ugly!