Which version are you using? I happen to have 2016.04 installed: $ perl6 -v This is Rakudo version 2016.04 built on MoarVM version 2016.04 impleme

Which version are you using? I happen to have 2016.04 installed: $ perl6 -v This is Rakudo version 2016.04 built on MoarVM version 2016.04 implementing Perl 6.c. and I see: > my @values = [ 1 .. 20 ]; [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20] > say @values[0, 2, 4 ... *]; (1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19) (Of course it's the odd numbers, not the even numbers, but it just happens that the odd-valued entries are in the even-indexed positions in this list.)