[kw-pm] is perl 6 really that different?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  just skimming the aforementioned o'reilly perl 6 book,
and i'm confused about its description of how to index
into an array.

  on p 26 (if you happen to have the book), we have the
example:

  @array = ("Zaphod", "Ford", "Trillian") ;
  $second_element = @array[1] ;			??????

since when?  i thought you'd write that second statement as
  ... $array[1] ;

  am i just hopelessly confused?  it's been a long day,
i'm tired and maybe i'm just not thinking clearly.

rday