For some reason I was expecting that the syntax should look more like this: 
for( @male Z @female )->[$m,$f] { # .... }

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Close. Two things got into your way. The first is syntactic: you need a space between for and (. The reason is that (nearly) everything of the form identifier(...) is parsed as a subroutine call. That way keywords don't conflict with function names, making it more robust to introduce new syntax.

The second one is a bit more interesting. In a signature, [$m, $f] stands for a single parameter, which is taken as a list, and unpacked into the two variables. But @list1 Z @list2 returns a list of lists which flattens the sublists when you iterate over it. To stop that flattening, you can write 

for (@male Z @female).tree ->[$m,$f] {
    # ....
}

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which indeed works in current Rakudo.

Also, how would you push a stringified concatenation onto a new array?

Several ways: 

my @array;
for @male Z @female -> $m, $f {
    push @array, "$m $f;
    # or
    @array.push: "$m $f";
    # or
    @array.push: $m ~ ' ' ~ $f
}

# or

my @array = (@male Z @female).map("$^a $^b");

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Since Z can also be used as a meta operator, you can also get zip and concatenation in one go, using Z~: 

my @array = @male Z~ @female; # without joining space

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To get the space between the two operands, you can use one of these tricks: 

# with the list repetition operator:
@array = @male Z~ ' ' xx @male Z~ @female;

# with cross instead of zip:
@array = @male X~ ' ' Z~ @female;

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All of these solutions work with current Rakudo.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

In reply to Re^3: how to avoid using index of array by moritz
in thread how to avoid using index of array by Achilles_Sea

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