&#62; It somehow feels cleaner to me, this separation of contexts (contexts in the usual sense of the word, not strictly Perl contexts).<p>I've made the argument that the intended <i>type</i> of an operation is as much a context as the amount (void/scalar/list) context.  The relevant Perl 5 literature flirts with that phrasing, but Perl 6 goes much further to extend that metaphor.  That has proven very useful in discussions of consistency.