Perl 9 contians new datatypes/contexes! Perl now got some new data types and contexes: Fuzzy Context ~ Everything is not sharp but fuzzy! Fuzzy does always something like the desired value! It is never exact! my ~fuz; # Fuzzy type use PHP qw(Function::echo); # You don't know if its assigning list or scalar context! my ~fuzzy = qw(Hello mister Edd); echo<-~fuzzy; // Can print 'Hello' or can print '3' my ~foo = 'Good morning'; echo<-~foo; # Due a built in AI engine, this may print 'Good morning' or 'Bad afternoon' Matrix Context [] No more limitations to list and scalar and void contexes! my ([]matrix1,[]matrix2) = ( ((1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1)), ((0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1), (1, 0, 0)), ); []matrix1 += []matrix2; # Will add matrix2 to matrix1! []matrix1.say; # Will print ((1, 1, 0), (0, 1, 1), (1, 0, 1)) If you want to do multi dimensional matrices then you can do: my [][]matrix = (((1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1)), ((0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1), (1, 0, 0)), ((0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1), (1, 0, 0))); etc...