So references aren't gone; just their visibility has decreased drastically, as well as the need for explicit derferencing.
This comment fills me with dread. I understand Perl 5, where a reference is a reference, and if I want the thing it refers to, I manually de-reference. Simple enough. I've got that. (I also understand Python's way of doing things: every variable is always a reference, and the system de-references as necessary and everything just works.) But I don't like the sound of (Perl 6's) "their visibility has been decreased drastically". Are there many special cases where sometimes there's auto de-reffing and sometimes there isn't? What is the uniformity of the design that I don't yet see?
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