landyacht

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   by landyacht 2y ago

   Perl and Raku are grouped together today primarily for historical reasons. Yes, Raku started as Perl 6 and is certainly a Perl-inspired language, but the rename happened precisely because it is so different. Regarding regexes, Raku introduc
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   by landyacht 3y ago

   As someone who has been doing Raku for several years now, I will say the documentation is both great and also lacking. Most of what's there is well written and includes useful example code, but I occasionally run across things that eit
3. 3.▲
   by landyacht 7y ago

   As far as I'm aware, there's nothing "official" about any of the three examples you linked. They've just gained unanimity.
4. 4.▲
   by landyacht 7y ago

   > "let's create new and weird syntaxes for TMTOWTDI" Nothing in Perl 6 is there just for the sake of having it. Usually the options give you trade-offs between generality and concision/clarity. Like `[+]` vs. `sum`; s