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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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