As an aside, I've always found Perl's treatment of sigils confusing - especially when using hash slices! So I applaud Raku's more uniform approach, amusingly explained by Damian Conway in this youtube talk (9:45-10:40) in the following two tables of which sigil to use when:

PerlScalarArrayHash
Full contents$@%
Individual element$$$
Multiple elements@$@@
Multiple elements with keys%$%%

RakuScalarArrayHash
Full contents$@%
Individual element$@%
Multiple elements$@%
Multiple elements with keys$@%

I especially enjoyed TheDamian's quip at the 10:30 mark:

It really does make everyone's lives easier ... except for people who are coding in both Perl 5 and Perl 6 at the same time. Your lives will be misery. :)

In reply to Re^2: Hash Curious by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Hash Curious by cadphile

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