On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Mike Erickson <m...@quidquam.com> [2012-05-16 15:45]: >> If you don't care about order, but just want those elements, you can >> also do: >> >> keys%{{@a}} > > There is more than order that gets lost. If you use `keys` you also get > everything back stringified – undefs are lost and references break. If > you use `values` these problems go away… except that to get the odd- > index elements from it you have to `reverse` the array, at which point > a not-especially-golfed grep is shorter.
So you'd want values%{{1,@a}} then