my @y = ; # Array of strings 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' say @y[2]; # the @-sigil requires the container to implement the role Positional @y[1,2] = 'x','y'; # that's where subscripts and many other things come from say @y; # OUTPUT«[A x y D]␤» # we start to count at 0 btw. my $x = @y; # $x is now a reference for the array @y say $x[1]; # prints 'x' followed by a newline character my Int $with-type-check; # type checks are enforced by the compiler my Int:D $defined-i = 10; # definedness can also be asked for and default values are required in that case my Int:D $after-midnight where * > 24 = 25; # SQL is fun and so is Perl 6 my \bad = 'good'; # if you don't like sigils say bad; # you don't have to use them say "this is quite bad"; # but then string interpolation say "this is quite {bad}" # becomes more wordy