Well actually neither way (system == 0 or die versus system and die) will work as expected in Perl 6 for the simple reason that the return code of system will be switched around. 0 will indicate failure, 1, success.

Which means that you'll finally be able to write code which appears follows the usual logic such as for opening files:

  if( !system( qw/ifconfig eth0 down/ )) {
    die "could not ignore the world\n";
  }

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You can fix Perl5 to behave like this now. japhy posted some code in japhygesis that switches this (and other inconsistencies) around to make things flow more naturally.

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In reply to Re:x3 relaying arguments using system call (or japhygesis) by grinder
in thread relaying arguments using system call by jonnyfolk

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