Accessing a list literal by key?

Hi,

    # Should this work?
    say (a => 1, b => 2)<b>;  # 2 or error?

    # Similarily:
    my @array = (a => 1, b => 2);
    say @array<b>;

    my $arrayref = [ a => 1, b => 2 ];
    say $arrayref<b>;

FWIW, I think accessing arrays and arrayrefs by key should probably not
work, but I'm unsure on (...)<b>.


(%hash[$numerical_index] is, of course, bogus, as hashes aren't ordered
by default.)


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• Accessing a list literal by key? by Ingo Blechschmidt
• Re: Accessing a list literal by key? by Larry Wall