L'Alabameñu

## Proposal As I mentioned on a [Rakudo issue](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/4322), the current formatting of `Datish` is problematic for several reasons. Consequently, I propose the following * Deprecate the `:formatter` option *...

Another oddity of the `:formatter` option that came up during discussions on IRC: it doesn't survive round tripping with `.raku`: ```raku my $a = Date.new: :2021year, :1month, :1day, :formatter{'Modified format'};...

I have created a [branch](https://github.com/alabamenhu/rakudo/tree/master) with working code and so can have a more concrete proposal. Documentation and extensive test files to be included in roast exist in the [working...

Effectively, the problem is the fact that there are two tokens, but only one way to set precedence. Two solutions I can see would be either 1. Add a second...

> There may be another issue here, which is that as described above, I think that there might be a problem with the tokenizer. It seems to me that longest...

The source of this issue comes in NQP, so this may not be a Rakudo issue per say. At the start of matching, `$!pos` is set to -3. This can...

This may be because it requires the RakuAST branch. I'm not sure how we should best handle that, actually.

I'm totally fine with that — plus I need to update this anyways so … off to fez :-)

> Since to be able to support this, it would require same serious redesign with regards to return handling, and the fact that it could be considered correct that the...

> FWIW, I think the workaround of sub foo(Set $s) { } is not really an inconvenience? I mean sure, for sets. But we have sigils and I like to...