On 03/10/2018 01:50, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 10/2/18 4:47 PM, David Green wrote: >> On 2018-10-02 4:06 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> What is the official Perl syntaxland name of the [] subroutine? >> If you search for "[]" at https://docs.perl6.org, it will turn up the >> routine "postcircumfix [ ]", which links to >> <https://docs.perl6.org/routine/[%20]#language_documentation_Operators> >> >> https://docs.perl6.org/language/subscripts >> <https://docs.perl6.org/routine/[%20]#language_documentation_Operators> >> >> >> >> -David >> > > Thank you! > > One down, one to go! > > :-)
The same page you already found by searching for [ ] in the search bar also gives you the explanation of the other [ ], i.e. the one used in my @a = [1, 2, 3]. It is perhaps less visible than desirable, as it doesn't come with an example, but the category it's in, namely "circumfix" can clue you in that it means the one in [1, 2, 3]. circumfix means "goes around", like prefix means "goes before" or infix means "in between". postcircumfix is kind of a combination of postfix and circumfix where there is one thing that the routine goes after, and another thing that the routine goes around. That's how you get @a[1]; the [ ] from the view of @a is a postfix and from the view of 1 is a circumfix. Hence, postcircumfix. Hope that helps - Timo
