in reply to Re: Re: the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant
in thread the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant

$x = $items[3];

$x is the third element of this collection of items. No problem. Except my off by one error. ;)

Really, in my mind, as I'm typing $items, I'm thinkink that this is a collection of items, but now I only want this [3] particular one. So keeping the "s" makes sense. YMMV