The Perl 5 FAQ, answered in Perl 6

This is not the Perl 6 FAQ. These are the questions from the Perl 5 FAQ but answered in Perl 6. This is not intended as a replacement for the official Perl 6 FAQ, although that document is free to steal what it likes under the Artistic License 2.0.

The answers

There are several opportunities in providing new answers to old questions. We can show off Perl 6.

Some things may be easier, and some things may not be problems anymore. Noting those situations, even if the task is trivial, can make Perl 6 look better.

Some tasks merely need the right example or module pointer, or the name of the tool to use.

Cookbook answers

Many of the questions in the Perl 5 version are more cookbook-based. The questioner is interested in accomplishing a task and want to know how to do it in Perl 5. The perlfaq usually showed a simple solution in pure Perl 5 without the use of modules. Some recommended a module. People will want to do the same sort of tasks in Perl 6.

Gotcha answers

Some questions deal with common gotcha programming problems. These were often interesting edge cases that aren't obvious from the documentation or the behavior of other parts of the language. Perl 6 might have fixed many of these.

Meta-programming answers

Not meta-object answers! These questions are about the programming process and the tools to make that happen. People already have their process and want to do the same thing with the Perl 6 tools.