Typeglobs will go away in Perl6, but they will be replaced by a more consistent := aliasing operator.
In Perl5 you would write *foo = \@bar in Perl6 you would write @foo := @bar.
Though if I read Apocalypse 6 correctly then
sub foo (@foo is rw) { ... }
foo(@bar);
Will alias @bar to @foo, in the same way as @foo := @bar does, for that call.
I don't see a reason to avoid typeglobs if you must alias something in Perl5. Ponie (Perl5 running on Parrot) will certainly support typeglobs, and I don't a good reason to compleatly throw away a useful (but seldom to be used) technique just because the next major version of Perl will not use that syntax for aliases. Should I stop using objects in Perl5 because Perl6 has a totally different object syntax?
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