Empty is considered useful

I found myself having to convert the arguments of a sub with plenty of optional named arguments into a hash to be passed on into another function.

sub f(:a?, :b?){
    my %h = 
        $a ?? a=>$a !! Emtpy, 
        $b ?? b=>$b !! Emtpy;
}

dd f(b=>1); # Hash %h = {:b(1)}

As it turns out, Empty is skipped when the list of Pairs is turned into a Hash. The short form of Emtpy is |(), a Slip of the empty list. Unless you love Lisp, that may be a little hard to read.