After being distracted from Perl 6 development for a while, I've
picked up the rope again.

As a combined self-training and practical test exercise, I started
translating the examples from "Mastering Algorithms in Perl"
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565923980 into Perl 6, and promptly
crashed into a potentially bottomless chain of dependencies on core
modules, all resolutely Perl 5.

Presumably, at some point soon, there will have to be 6-safe versions
of the modules in the core library, (except for the ones superceded by
the language itself). Is anybody working on this? If not, has anybody
produced a dependency tree for the library? Converting heavily-used
fundamental ones before rare and top-level ones would make for a more
rewarding and shorter task.

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