John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > An interpolated array:
> >
> > / @cmds /
> >
> > is matched as if it were an alternation of its elements:
> >
> > / [ @cmds[0] | @cmds[1] | @cmds[2] | ... ] /
> >
> > As with a scalar variable, each one is matched as a literal.
>
> Like this? (Assuming single quotes don't interpolate @foo[...])
>
> @a = ('a', 'b', 'c');
>
> '@a[0]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # true
> '@a[2]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # true
> '@a[9]' ~~ m:/ @a /; # false
I think he means "as opposed to a subrule". In Perl 5 terms, there's
an implicit \Q\E around each value in the array.
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