It's kind of like a poor man's Data::Dumper. For example, if you want to see all of your environment variables, you can use this:

That will represent %*ENV (remember that the '*' twigil means it's global) in a way that's legal Perl6 code. I use it because it makes complex data structures much easier to read. I don't know if it's possible to customize the output, though. Right now it's all one one line.

You can still do this:

You won't find the output as legible, though.

And while we're on the topic of environment variables, use the '+' twigil to read them. What to see the 'HOME' environment variable?

Update: the one thing I really want is for reflection to be added to Pugs so I can query an object for its methods. That will be a huge productivity boost so we can see exactly what we can play with.

eval $obj.perl;
eval $obj.yaml :lang<yaml>;     # though this syntax is unspecced and 
+may change.
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To get a Perlish representation of any object, use the .perl method. Like the Data::Dumper module in Perl 5, the .perl method will put quotes around strings, square brackets around list values, curlies around hash values, constructors around objects, etc., so that Perl can evaluate the result back to the same object.