Completely agree. I think GvR was too conservative. And yet he had lot of backslash, it's easy for me now to criticize several years later after the fact, I onl

Completely agree. I think GvR was too conservative. And yet he had lot of backslash, it's easy for me now to criticize several years later after the fact, I only have respect for the work done. I think it was in the mind of everyone the Perl 5/Perl 6 transition.