When I first started reading about perl6, I thought great, they're fixing a lot of the things I complain about in my essay Everything In Perl Is Wrong.
But now that I realize perl6 will still be intentionally ambiguous -- with heuristics based on what kind of white space you use (spaces or newlines?) -- I give up on any hope for perl6.
Perl is a "semicolon language", like C & C++ & Java. You have to use semicolons to terminate statements, and so whitespace doesn't matter (newlines are just whitespace, like spaces). There exist -- and personally, I like -- no-semicolon languages, like Awk, Tcl, & Python, which can always use newlines to terminate statements. But adding a single newline hack to an otherwise semicolon language is just Wrong!
Here's an excerpt from the Apocalypse linked above:
$x = do { ... } + 1;However, if you write
$x = do { ... } + 1;then the + will be taken erroneously as the start of a new statement. (So don't do that.)
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