FWIW, coming in such a long time after the party:

It has become my “standard conversion” for where I want to type

Of course, in this particular case, the correct, optimal solution is trivial:

my @grid = ( '01' .. '12' ) x 12;

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In the more general case, I prefer another way, because it maintains symmetry:

my @grid = map @$_, ( [ '01' .. '12' ] ) x 12;

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And to this:

Beyond the thinko, the problem I have with the for/push method is that the main objective – that of initialising the array @grid – gets lost in the noise of the construction.

I say bingo. That’s the reason I use Perl to begin with, rather than C. (“If I had a nickel for every time I wrote for( i = 0; i < LEN ; ++i ), …”)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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