Perl 6 Basics Tablet: Revision 9
1st law of language redesign: Everyone wants the colon for their particular syntax.
Basics doesn't mean here easy but fundamental. Which mostly translates to how to format and reformat data (numbers, strings and more).
Please note that any Perl 6 source code is treated as unicode by default. Also use strict; and use warnings; are enabled implicitly.
Unless you use blocks, a Perl program executes one statement after another in linear progression. They have to be separated by a semicolon (;), except before and after a closing curly brace, where it is optional.
Spaces and Indentation
Perl doesn't care about indentation. And spaces are still in many places without meaning. However these have become fewer.
Like in Perl 5 and many other languages of its league a "#" tells the compiler to ignore the rest of the line.
Konverting into numerical context means still: take from left to right all digits and other characters, up to the first char that clearly don't belong to a number definition and stop there.
A single underscore is allowed only between any two digits in a literal number, like:
$people = 3_456_789; # same as 3456789
0b binary - base 2, digits 0..1
General Radix Form
:10<42> # same as 0d42 or 42
$float = 60.2e23 # becomes automatically 6.02e24
To distinguish them from a division operation, you have to groupe them with braces.
As always, .perl gives you a almost like source code formatting which results here in "3/7". Adding .nude you get "(3/7)", the nude source code.
Are now normal quoted strings, only with a special delimiter.
Q :to 'EOT';
To make templates in which variables and closures are evaluated, take the normal double quote and just add the adverb for the heredoc delimiter or define with other adverbs what exactly you want to have evaluated.
The .perl method is a built in Data::Dumper (pretty printer) which gives you structured data the way you write it in perl source code.