that's almost ok to me, if there's any hope that  will have a _standard_ way to type accross all the editors:) (btw, I also hope I would never happen to mantain a perl6 program written by Chineese programmer, who thinks that chineese identifiers are cool)..
but now I'm curious what you gonna do with => autoquoting behavior:
shift => 'value' is the same as shift() => 'value' or 'shift' => 'value' in perl6?
or in this particular case consistancy doesn't matter? ,)