Agreed tye, my bad. If you take a look at my updated version, once I remembered the syntax for slices (not so very hard) it actually made the point I set out to make in the first place. That yo can use a slice as an rvalue in a list context and get the result that you would expect!

I spent 2 hours verifying the original bug and chose to post rather than mention it in the CB cos I often get extreme lag as you saw earlier. I end up trying to answer the question before the last question asked etc.

Then I had a brainfart ........