Ah-HAH! :)

(I *really* liked that Perl6 solution, BTW; I see that I'm going to have to get off my lazy butt and dig into it.)

All of that - particularly Util's solution - has finally caused a reticent neuron to fire. Originally, I thought of this: 

$out{shift @ref} = [splice @ref,0,2] while @ref;

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...but there's a precedence problem with that, so that %out ends up containing stuff like 

2 => [ 0, 1 ],
5 => [ 3, 4 ]
etc.

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so my final cut at it ends up being this: 

die if @ref % 3;
$out{$a} = [splice @ref,0,2] while $a = shift @ref;

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I'm definitely up for seeing more solutions, though. You folks come up with some very pretty thought patterns. :)

Thank you all!

In reply to Re^2: Elegance, dammit! by oko1
in thread Elegance, dammit! by oko1

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