My first impulse was to write basically the List::MoreUtils solutions in Perl 6. It has all() and .all built in, but no firstidx, so the solution goes through the detour of creating (index => value) pairs first: 

my @array =
    [ qw/ 1 1 1 1 1 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 1 1 0 0 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 0 0 0 1 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 0 0 0 0 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 1 0 -1 0 / ],
;

say @array.pairs.first({.value.all == 0 }).key;

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Now .all == 0 should ring a bell for Perl 6 developers, there's a simplification around the corner: 

say @array.pairs.first(*.value.none).key;

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A good solution always plays to the strength of the language that it is implemented in. If Perl 6 didn't have junctions, I'd go the route of calculating the sum instead, which is readily available: 

say @array.pairs.first({ 0 == [+] .value.list}).key;

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(This assumes that no negative entries are allowed. If they are allowed, one could add a >>.abs after the .list to fix it).

Another approach is to use the fact that 0 is the only number that evaluates to False in boolean context: 

say @array.pairs.first({ not [||] .value.list}).key;

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In both cases I make use of the fact that [op] applies the operator op to a list of values.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

In reply to Re: An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful) by moritz
in thread An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful) by davido

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