Well, it would not really be Perl if it allowed reason to take precedence over the inclusion of yet another confusing feature, right? And I don't mean that in a

Well, it would not really be Perl if it allowed reason to take precedence over the inclusion of yet another confusing feature, right? And I don't mean that in a negative sense, unbounded expressivity already is the central reason to use Perl and any changes to the language should respect that.