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Quick Tip #20: Way off base

Posted on December 5, 2016 by brian d foy

Want to use numbers that are represented in something other than base 10? That’s no problem in Perl 6. Some languages throw you a bone with binary, octal, or hexadecimal […]

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Quick Tip #13: Kapreker’s Constant

Posted on November 28, 2016 by brian d foy

A Kaprekar’s Constant is the number you end up with when you repeatedly substract the descending digits of a four digit number from the ascending digits. This is mostly a […]

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Quick Tip #7: Texas and Unicode things

Posted on November 22, 2016 by brian d foy

[“Texas” as a cute name has been changed to the less offensive and more prosaic “ASCII”] Perl 6 is more than Unicode “aware”—it reaches into the Unicode Character Database to […]

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Raku or Perl 6?

Raku used to be called Perl 6, but changed its name in October 2019. You’ll see both names here, and I’m working on updating the title of the paper book.

Learning Perl 6



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Many resources have not changed the name from Perl 6 to Raku, so these resources may use either.

Raku Design Docs (dated)
Raku Docs
Learn Perl 6 in Y Minutes
Raku modules
Rosetta Code examples
Project Euler examples
Perl 6 Examples
Raku Roast (test suite examples)

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