> If .indexes turns out to be used a lot, then let's have .i -- "i" for
> "index" is accepted abbreviation, isn't it? (Think for (i = 0; ...;
> ...))
+1 here. I too find ^$n a bit bizarre, but I like the look of

for @foo.i

OTOH, I like the parallels between %foo.keys and @foo.keys -- it recalls
the idea that an array can be thought of as a hash where the keys are
constrained to be sequential (or not, if it is sparse) integers.

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