Then the testimony of this thread is simply wrong. By explicit design, lvalue subs in Perl 6 will be just as usable as variables, which the testimony of this thread does not seem to understand are useful in many more places than just on one side of an
or the other. It's only the
of lvalue subs that you're carping about, and that will definitely be easier in Perl 6 than in Perl 5. I see no new data here to warrant reopening the case.