Well, this way you will have 2 versions of code in the wild, ascii and non-ascii. We will need to memorize both, which makes it harder to learn, and also having

Well, this way you will have 2 versions of code in the wild, ascii and non-ascii. We will need to memorize both, which makes it harder to learn, and also having 2 versions of syntax that you run into puts unnecessary mental strain on a developer having to switch between contexts. Perl's motto was always "There's more than one way to do it", but IMHO it was also the root of many of its weaknesses. It just makes code more complicated to understand, and this is one way to make it even worse (otherwise I love what they did with Perl6).