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> Where do the angle brackets come in? The angle brackets are syntactic sugar for word quoting. <a b c> is syntactic sugar for: ("a", "b", "c") The
by lizmat 3y ago
> Where do the angle brackets come in?
The angle brackets are syntactic sugar for word quoting.
<a b c>
is syntactic sugar for:
("a", "b", "c")
They can be used standalone. Or as postcircumfix on hashes:
%foo<a> # the value of key "a" in hash %foo
%foo<a b c> # the values of keys "a", "b", "c" in hash %foo
There's a lot more to it than that, but that's the gist of it.
https://docs.raku.org/language/quoting#Word_quoting:_%3C_%3E https://docs.raku.org/language/quoting#Word_quoting:_%3C_%3E
- throwanem 3y agoOh, okay, so it's just more sugar over Perl 5-style qw(), which is itself sugar over split(). I heard something once about "cancer of the semicolon"...