Thanks everyone for the thoughtful replies. I think this helped me the most --
On Tuesday, January 19, Vadim Belman wrote: > We have a documentation section on this: > https://docs.raku.org/language/list#Itemization "itemization in Arrays is assumed" ... "It was decided all those extra dollar signs and parentheses were more of an eye sore than a benefit to the user. Basically, when you see a square bracket, remember the invisible dollar signs." With this in mind, using Bruce's suggestion of @( @both[0] ) makes sense -- (though maybe because it reminds me of @{ ... } from Perl 5) Brian
