On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT <
perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:

> Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages


This is a Pythonism (and C and other such languages). Older Perl has the
same behavior that you can't index a string that way, but must use e.g.
substr. You will *not* likely see this from old Perlers; they will reach
for substr.

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