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scanning effect of C<m//> by prepending the pattern with C<.*?>.

[Update: Where the preceding paragraphs says C<:c> read C<:p>.]

But it's vitally important to understand this fundamental change, that
C<//> is no longer a short form of C<m//>, but rather a short form of
C<rx//>. If you want to add modifiers to a C<//>, you have to turn it
into an C<rx//>, not an C<m//>. It's now I<wrong> to call C<split> like
this:

    split m/.../

(That is, it's wrong unless you actually want the return value of the
pattern match to be used as the literal split delimiter.)

The old C<?...?> syntax is gone. Indeed, it has to go for us to get the
unary C<?> operator.

    Old                 New
    ---                 ---
    ?pat?               m:once/pat/

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    $string =~ (@array = split);

or maybe even this:

    @array = split given $string;

But I think I like the OO notation better here anyway:

    @array = $string.split;

In fact, split may not be a function at all. The default split might
just be a string method and use unary dot:

    @array = .split;

We still have the third argument to deal with, but that's likely to be
specified like this:

    @array = $string.split(limit => 3);

We could conceivably make a different method for word splitting, much