I'd like to try it, but I don't have perl5 where I am this week. My understanding is that \(1..10) is shorthand for (\1,\2,\3,...,\10), and that your list will be flattened, so that (\(1..10),\(11..15)) is the same as \(1..15).

It's not a feature I've used, myself, so I could certainly be misunderstanding it. If I am, I would genuinely appreciate someone making it clear to me.

It took me a minute to decode "array slide" as "array slice". I thought you were talking about a feature I'd never heard of!

Update: from perlref: 

Taking a reference to an enumerated list is not the same as using squa
+re brackets--instead it's the same as creating a list of references!

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We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.

In reply to Re^4: get a certain number of words from a line by Roy Johnson
in thread get a certain number of words from a line by js1

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