Perl Postscript Problem

[Dave Smith]

On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Alan Young wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 17:37, Peter Bowen <peter at bowenfamily.org> wrote:
>>  It looks like profanity to me... ;)
>> 
>> On 08/04/2010 04:05 PM, Alan Young wrote:
>>> 
>>>    return $#{@$self};
> 
> In this case it is. :[ $# has been deprecated for awhile now.

This kind of syntax soup is what I dislike about Perl the most. What's the preferred method for doing this now?

--Dave