If you are using Perl code golf jokes as your basis for imagining what Perl code looks like, then this is incorrect. Yes there are a few annoyances with special

If you are using Perl code golf jokes as your basis for imagining what Perl code looks like, then this is incorrect. Yes there are a few annoyances with special variables and yes this makes it very easy to write things that will be hard for other people to read, but I really think people that write things like that are doing it on purpose. The documentation for the various intricacies of Perl 6 has gotten much better, at least IMO from Perl 5, and most of the more interesting aspects of the language are just slightly augmented existing ones.