I've been going over the S documents, and I'm still not seeing what is the difference between accessing a single value and accessing multiple values from an array?

$x= @a[4];
@y= @a[4,5,6];
$q= @a[@s];

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I suppose that the compiler figures out the first two based on static analysis. But what about the third? If @s contains exactly one value, will $q wind up with an item or a reference to a list of one item?

Normally the context (item, list, etc) is determined by context, hence its name. But is the type of expression instead driving what the subscripting operator does, in the manner of multimethod overloading?

—John

In reply to [Perl 6] single-value vs. array slices by John M. Dlugosz

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