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…
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…
As far as I'm aware, there's nothing "official" about any of the three examples you linked. They've just gained unanimity.
> "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`; sum…
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…
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…
As far as I'm aware, there's nothing "official" about any of the three examples you linked. They've just gained unanimity.
> "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`; sum…