@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ the explanation later for you and everybody else.
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=head2 ack
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- An improved version of L</grep>, written in Perl (L<beyondgrep.com>).
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+ An improved version of L</grep>, written in Perl (L<http:// beyondgrep.com>).
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Also used by old folks to indicated acknowledgement.
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@@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ Away From Keyboard. Logged in, but there's noone looking at the screen.
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=head2 Any
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- The class from which most things derive, except for L</junction >s.
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+ The class from which most things derive, except for L</Junction >s.
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=head2 any()
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- A junction with "or" semantics.
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+ A Junction with "or" semantics.
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=head2 API
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@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ operators. So C<+=> makes sense, but C<..=> doesn't.
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=head2 DIHWIDT
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- Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This. Well, stop doing it then.
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+ " Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This." Well, stop doing it then.
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=head2 dispatcher
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@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ from a remote location.
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=head2 eager
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- One of the opposites of " lazy" .
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+ One of the opposites of L</ lazy> .
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=head2 ecosystem
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@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ cross, zip, hyperify or assignify fiddly operators.
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=head2 fork
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- The creation of another process in Perl 6 .
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+ The creation of another process.
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Also, a feature of L</github> that copies a repository from one user to another,
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to allow users to make changes to a repository without needing permissions on
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=head2 gist
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+ A summary, or a method on objects that is invoked by L</say> to print out the
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+ object in a human readable format, or a paste server used by denizens of L</IRC>.
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=head2 git
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The distributed source revision system used by many, if not all Perl 6
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Intermediate representation of code used in the JVM backend of Rakudo and NQP.
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- =head2 junction
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A compound type that is transparent to many operations. See
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=head2 karma
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=head2 KISS
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=head2 PAUSE
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=head2 pb
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=head2 QAST
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+ Successor to L</ PAST>.
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=head1 R
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=head2 yoleaux
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