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@Heptite > I still plan on trying something more extensive using Tk with Inline::Perl5 Putting that aside for now, please confirm (or correct) what I write below. TIA. ``` use...

Further golfing conceptually, you can't `.resume` into a handler: ` { die; CATCH {} }; CATCH { .resume } ` (An empty `CONTROL`, just like an empty `CATCH`, will implicitly...

Hi @coke As I tried to explain in my 2019 comment, this issue boils down to "Cannot resume an exception thrown by another handler". For example: ``` { die; #...

> Having lived with the fixed semantics in Rakudo for a few releases now without apparent issue, I'm proposing this PR, which moves the re-binding tests from Rakudo into Roast,...

From the design doc: > Secondary sigils (twigils) have no influence over whether the primary sigil interpolates. That is, if $a interpolates, so do $^a, $*a, $=a, $?a, $.a, etc....

Thank you @JJ and @coke for starting to address this issue. This has put my mind at ease for now. @coke, you can of course do as you wish, but...

This is the same issue that arises in English. The issue is rooted in the following ambiguity and its resolution: **how many things are there in a list of five...

@treyharris > I’m happy to collaborate on this if you want to bounce some ideas back and forth. Sure. Though once I start bouncing ideas, I get serious. If the...

@patrickbkr > I will evade the word "variable" as I feel it confuses things for people having a preconception about what a variable is. I hear you on folk having...

@JJ > `$a` is a `List` in `Scalar` context. Yes. Which is an extremely basic and perfectly valid scenario. How many things is a list? It's one thing. That's the...