My morning started today with a cup of cold tea and an IRC request. The latter was coming from Elizabeth Mattijsen asking to write a paragraph on my recently merged work on Raku roles. There was a little problem though: I have no idea how to fit it into a single paragraph! And so I was left with no choice but to start blogging for the first time in many years.

Note. For those of you who consider themselves Raku experts I'd rather recommend skipping the next two sections and proceed directly to the technical details in Changes.

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