Context has never bought me much that I care about. I cannot count the number of times that I have seen people tripped up by it. And, having done it, I never again want to go through the fun of wrapping code whose behaviour is heavily context-dependent. Adding a million and one precisely defined contexts to Perl 6 will move that from being a PITA to effectively impossible.

Arguments about the artistry of Perl I find strangely unmoving. The theory that someone, somewhere, gets it right by habit is all fine and dandy. I daresay that I have more Perl expertise than most, and I sure as heck know that I don't get it right. When I revisit old code, it is a constant complaint. When I visit other people's code, their choices tend to be an irritation for me.

YMMV and apparently does. But I'm someone who is bugged by the feeling of solving artificially imposed problems, and I've come to feel that context is one of those. :-(

(Of course Perl avoids a lot of artificial problems that I see in other languages. I can live with the occasional misfeature that I dislike...)