[chromatic]

I think that's a flaw (not necessarily a fatal flaw) of the "There should be one obvious way to do things."

Of course, Perl's followup problem is that the ill-thought core versions rarely get removed....

[granular]

Do you expect that the canonical Perl 6 implementation of the standard library (I guess this is whatever will come with Rakudo?) will suffer from this follow-up problem about the same as Perl 5, or less-so?