This thread was about Perl5. Perl6 is a separate language in the same family and not relevant to this conversation. Of course, Perl5 now has most of the inter

This thread was about Perl5. Perl6 is a separate language in the same family and not relevant to this conversation. Of course, Perl5 now has most of the interesting features of Perl6 anyway, given things like MooseX::Declare - to the point where we're currently helping the Perl6 community steal things back from Perl5 based on our experience using the additional capabilities in production (i.e. "thanks Perl6 for letting us steal stuff, here's how it works out in the real world" - the Open Source way :)