title: Why doesn't Perl support the normal [] operator to index a string?
body: <p>Why doesn't Perl support the normal [] operator to index a string?</p>
  
  <p>Almost all major programming languages support this operator, especially the other two 'P': Python and PHP. Moreover, I do think it should be easy to implement this little syntax. Also, as the philosophy of the Perl programming language -- as lazy as we could, so why do we bother to use a function to index a string?</p>
  
  <p>Will Perl 6 support this syntax?</p>