[muraiki]

I wrote the above snippet, but it was basically just one step beyond what Curtis Ovid Poe shows in his "Perl 6 For Mere Mortals" presentation.

My intention wasn't to make people say "wow, I know Perl 5 but now I'll never figure out Perl 6," but rather to illustrate some new features in the context of a familiar example. :) In fact, the above-mentioned presentation introduces P6 features by gradually expanding upon P5 code, showing that you can gradually grow into the language.