Oh dear. I'm guessing the reporter is not very familiar with Perl 5 :)

For instance, if you are looking for a long string of identical letters, you can just indicate the number of letters in the string, instead typing out each letter. In other words, with the current version of Perl, you'd type "aaaaa" to indicate you are looking for 5 letter a's. In Perl 6, you need type only "a**5." There, the 5 indicates the number of letter a's you seek.