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I don't say ~> is bad, I just want every new grammar/op adding during perl5 evolved should keep consistent.

Too late. Tilde already has a full house of contextual overloads: 

print ~'fred';;
ÖìÜø

print ~12345;;
18446744073709539270

print ~( 2 != 2 );;
18446744073709551615

print ~~( '2' eq '2' );;
1

~\'fred';;
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