It'll be interesting to c how the radically overhauled module management in Perl 6 pans out. (They're making sure that installation is practical. For example,

It'll be interesting to c how the radically overhauled module management in Perl 6 pans out. (They're making sure that installation is practical. For example, NativeCall, for calling C libs, does not require a C compiler.) > Also devs are used to having named arguments for their functions. Not supporting that is just silly. The latest Perl 5s have this ("signatures"). Signatures are a central element of Perl 6. (They are way more powerful than in Perl 5, even the latest.) > it's difficult to google things like $/, $", $% and $_ when you're confused. Yes. Fwiw Perl 6 only keeps three of these oddly named variables (removing dozens of others) and they are simple in practice: name concept formally means the current/latest $_ it topic (Nil or any value/object) $! oh noes! error (Nil or unthrown exception) $/ /regex/ match (Nil or parse tree)