It can be translated as "print items one, zero, minus one and minus two of the array ['another', 'just', 'hacker' 'perl'].

The only real obfu is that instead of using the number one, I've used "zero minus minus-one" -- and instead of using zero I used the special variable $[ which is zero unless you've changed it to something else (and as it says in the documentation "don't do that"!).

It looks weird, just because there are those [ brackets next to each other. I was experimenting with what did happen if you changed $[ to something other than zero (can it be changed to a negative number?), and also with what was allowed in 

for( n .. m )

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type loops (can they decrease or only increase?).


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In reply to Re: Re: the long way round by Cody Pendant
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