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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by dragonwriter on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:12PM (#21252960)
> It's trivial to understand the difference between the scalar var $foo and the array var $foo[0] if someone explains it to you or you read it;

I don't Perl much, but aren't those both scalars and @foo is an array variable. $foo[0] would be a scalar that is the first element of @foo, right?

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Qcombinator on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:04AM (#21255711)
Yes, indeed — I should have said "scalar element of the array var..." or something.
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