Perl 6 regular expression basics

Things that remain (mostly) the same from Perl 5 regexes

(For those who don't like change, this is your one slide to relax.)

• Capturing is still performed by parens
• *, +, and ? are still repetition quantifiers
• Backslash still escapes
• Question mark is still the minimal match suffix ( ??, *?, +? )
• Character class shortcuts (most): \d \w \s