On Jan 14, 4:48pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote: } } > VAR[]=(this is prepended) } > VAR[]+=(this is appended) } > VAR+=(short for 'VAR[]+=') } } That seems reasonably logical. Would the following be possible to prepend } to an array element? } VAR[1][]="first" If we were also to define var[] for scalars to allow prepend, then yes.