$() and $( ) should be the same thing

[zhuomingliang]

06:11 ShimmerFairy ( and for the record, I only learned about $() a couple days ago, and I personally wouldn't mind if it went away. I don't see where it's useful enough to have a short form of {$/.ast // ~$/} )
06:12 * JimmyZ wish $() and $( ) is the same thing
06:12 *are
06:13 ShimmerFairy JimmyZ: I've never seen it used, except for a few spots in nqp and/or rakudo, and it doesn't seem like it has anything to do with regexes. I'm inclined to agree :)
06:15 JimmyZ: and on top of it, $() feels to me like a case of creeping "punctuation scalars" that I know existed in Perl 5, and we worked to get rid of :) (that is, Perl 5's $=, $', and probably everything else that could match /'$' <:Punct>/ :P)
06:16 JimmyZ well, at least, for consistency, they should be same thing
06:16 * TimToady agrees that $() can go
06:16 JimmyZ $[] vs $[ ] vs $() vs $( )
06:16 colomon_ joined #perl6
06:18 ShimmerFairy TimToady: for what it's worth, I kinda like the idea of something that automatically picks the right thing like that, but I think in most cases you're not working off $/ in the first place, and it's not worth a magical-variable-looking thing.
06:18 in most cases where you're interested in C<.ast>s, is what I meant.
06:19 TimToady it would make more sense to use $<> for that anyway

see http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2015-08-28#i_11129898 for more.