To be sure! I’m not allergic to Perl and I like seeing the cool new stuff going on there. But afterward, I prefer to take those learnings and apply them to work I’m doing in other languages.
To begin to transfer P6 grammar/parsing features or techniques to another language you'd have to bundle NQP and one of its backends. Does that sound worthwhile?
Also, how would you handle strings in this other language?
In P6 and its grammar engine, a string is a sequence of characters, where characters are defined as the thing a human thinks of as a character.
Almost all other languages have adopted either a byte or a Unicode codepoint as being equivalent to a character, both of which are really profound problems that are still not being confronted to this day.
For example, the draft docs for Python 3.7 don't even mention characters (by which I mean what a user thinks of as characters, not bytes or codepoints).[1]
