All: I would like to revisit the following question as there was no decision reached AFAICT.
http://groups.google.ca/group/perl.perl6.language/browse_thread/thread/766c1b32c57a56f6/3296f0d6cad75548?q=list+context+.chars&rnum=1&hl=en#3296f0d6cad75548 What I would like to be able to do is: my $str = 'hello'; my @chars = $str.chars; # <h e l l o> There were some good points raised in that thread that I think are valid, but I think it digressed from the intent of the original question. Perhaps that is because "unicode" prefaced chars which clouded the waters. I don't know anything about unicode and leaving the hard choices for doing the "right thing" up to you all. Whatever the "right thing" is, will there be a way to do what my code snippet showed? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R