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[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2008-05-01 08:52, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Quick perl question - why are @array[$num] and         
>          $array[$num] the same?

They are not.
As per the perl manual or so, $ denotes the singular form, and
@ the plural form. Like, $apple but @apples.
IOW, $a[2] to extract one element, and @a[2,3,4] to extract three (same 
with hashes: $a{onething}, @a{one,another}).
Of course, @a[2] should be valid just in case the list passed in has 
only one element. (Allows you to write something like 
@a[&all_interesting_indexes($of_this_array)]
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