Re: What would you do?

[bjelli]

doubling a number seems simpler than doing the modulo, thus:

# change even-numberd list entries to 'hi'
foreach $i (0..@list/2) {
    $double = $i * 2;
    $list[$double] = 'hi';
}

of course you could do away with the extra variable "$double". loose the variable, insert another line of comment to explain what happens. same difference.

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[indigo]

Just a little tighter, without getting too obfuscated:

$list[$_ * 2] = 'hi' for 0 .. @list / 2;