The second reason is that this change will likely facilitate introducing people to using Perl.
I don't buy this. If this was really a reason, they wouldn't have introduced gazillion things that no other language has in that form. Perl6 will be much further from anything a novice Perl programmer has encountered in other languages than Perl5; the dot vs arrow is insignificant. OTOH, it's one more thing that Perl5 programmers will learn if they switch to Perl6. Now, perhaps the Perl6 gang is more interested in drawing non-Perl programmers to Perl6 than it is in drawing Perl5 programmers to Perl6, but I think the biggest pool of Perl6 programmers will have to be drawn from the current Perl5 crowd.
Besides, the entire world doesn't use ".". Java does, and perhaps Perl wants to look more like its bigger and more important brother, but there are still some languages out there that use ->. Pike for instance.
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