Hyper-slices?

[David Christensen]

Quick thought ---
Does the current design of Perl 6's hyper operators allow for 
"hyper-slices"?  I.e., if I want to model a matrix by using a list of 
lists, is the following code valid/useful?

my @matrix=([1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]);
my @row = @matrix[0]; # first row
my @col = @matrix>>[0]; #first column
my @transposed = @matrix>>[0..2];
I don't know if this case has been discussed earlier; is extracting an 
element considered a unary operation?  Is there some use for this 
notation, other than what  I just said?

I suppose the same could be said for Lists of Hashes:
my @records=({name=>"Tom",age=>27},{name=>"Dick",age=>33});
my @names= @records>>{'name'};
say @names;
# Tom Dick
Of course, for this to be useful, the lists would have to be 
homogenous; @array is List of Hashes (excuse the syntax; I'm still 
getting up to speed with a lot of the P6 specific issues).

Again, apologies if this is a closed domain/already has some other 
method of retrieving the same information.

Thanks,
David Christensen