CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE

    $listref->[2][2]    # clear
    $$listref[2][2]     # confusing

That's because Perl's precedence rules on its five prefix dereferencers (which look like someone swearing: $ @ * % &) make them bind more tightly than the postfix subscripting brackets or braces! This will no doubt come as a great shock to the C or C++ programmer, who is quite accustomed to using *a[i] to mean what's pointed to by the i'th element of a. That is, they first take the subscript, and only then dereference the thing at that subscript. That's fine in C, but this isn't C.

The seemingly equivalent construct in Perl, $$listref[$i] first does the deref of $listref, making it take $listref as a reference to an array, and then dereference that, and finally tell you the i'th value of the array pointed to by $LoL. If you wanted the C notion, you'd have to write ${$LoL[$i]} to force the $LoL[$i] to get evaluated first before the leading $ dereferencer.