How do we intend to manipulate raw binary in Perl6? Perl5's use bytes; pragma is rather poor (forcing all strings to be raw in its scope or requiring do {use bytes; ...} type tricks to deal with them) and now Perl6 has real typing perhaps it would be more usefull to have a bytestring type (or and octect string type) that doesn't get utf8ed.
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