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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by jandrese on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:35AM (#16214844)
The progress on Perl 5 has been remarkable too. Complex data structures no longer require you to wave a dead chicken and spelunk through StackExchange for hours. Unicode just works most of the time. Useful new features appear in the language, even though you would rightfully expect it to be in maintenance mode.
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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by loggedinmyphone on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:45AM (#16214920)
> Complex data structures no longer require you to wave a dead chicken

Do you have a reference on changes to data structure syntax in 5.x? Probably my biggest frustration was trying to use anything beyond a scalar list - it always ended up a mess of hashrefs.

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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by jandrese on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:44PM (#16215488)
Mostly it is deref operators being smarter now so you don't have to wrap everything in curly braces to get it to dereference properly.
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