Hello zeltus,

I think you have already answered your own main question. But your preferred syntax:

my $v3 = (@tarray)[0];
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looks a little odd. At the least, it’s unnecessarily complex: it says, “Take the elements of @tarray; treat them as a list; and return the first element of that list.” More straightforward to cut out the middle step and just say:

my $v3 = $tarray[0];
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If you do need a slice, an array slice is also more straightforward here than a list slice:

my ($v4, $v5) = @tarray[0, 2];
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See the FAQs:

• What is the difference between a list and an array?
• What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?

Hope that helps,