Perl 6 at a Glance
A quick dive into Perl 6 (now Raku): the essentials, operators, subroutines and types, object orientation, regexes and grammars, and a practical appendix — the initial knowledge to start working with the language.
Foreword
Perl 6 Essentials
Operators
- Prefixes
- Postfixes
- Method postfixes
- Infix operators
- Numerical operators
- String operators
- Universal comparison operators
- List operators
- Junction operators
- Shortcut operators
- Other infix operators
- Meta-operators
- Hyper-operators
Code Organization
- Subroutines, or subs
- Variables and signatures
- Anonymous code blocks
- Placeholders
- Function overloading
- Modules
Classes
- Class attributes
- Class methods
- Inheritance
- Multiple inheritance
- Private (closed) methods
- Submethods
- Constructors
- Roles