in reply to Rumors of Next Apocalypse

TheDamian dropped a few hints about A5 at Re: Perl6 and Extreme Programming

For a more complex example, Larry showed the design team the first draft of A5 yesterday. It's sensational! He's heavily refactored the regex syntax, and the result is that simple regexes become vastly more readable, and complex regexes vastly easier to get right.

-Blake