I noticed today that no warning is thrown when a reference is used in a slice of one element, is there a reason for this? I tested with both 5.8.8 and 5.10.0. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @a = qw/a b c/; print @a[0], "\n"; my $ref = \@a; print @{$ref}[0], "\n"; -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Next