sigil-invariance

Where is the documentation for the behavior of @array->[4] or %hash->{key} in Perl?

A recent question used a sigil invariant syntax %hash->{key} = 1; for hash access, which seems to work fine, but I would have thought it would be a syntax error. It seems to work for arrays as well: my @array; @array->[3] = 6; Is this behavior documented somewhere? I don't remember reading it, but may have overlooked it. It seems ...