Ok, There's one thing that is not clear in the thread, which is when an array is multidimensional or not...
For instance: @a = (1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9); Will produce a flatten array, because list assignment causes flattening, so the dimensionality was lost. It is important to remember that this was a change in the spec that happened some time ago. Before that, @a and @@a did refer to the same variable, but this is no longer the case. Now @a and @@a are different variables (in fact the @@ sigil is probably going to be replaced, since it's not just "list slice" but it's actually a capture) So, in the @a = (1,(2,(3,4)); example, @a will be a flat list with 4 elements. So, how do I deal with a multidim array? Well, TIMTOWTDI... my @a = 1,[2,[3,4]]; say @a[1][1][1]; say @a[1;1;1]; # I'm not sure this is correct Or.. (I'm using the proposed capture sigil here, which has '@%a' as its expanded form) my ¢a = 1,(2,(3,4); say ¢a[1][1][1]; say ¢a[1;1;1]; I think that makes the semantics of the API more clear... daniel
