You can uninstall Perl 6 modules. Many people have asked for a way to uninstall a Perl 5 module, but that toolchain didn’t do the sort of tracking that Perl […]
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Quick Tip #29: Flip-flopping junctions
The flip flop operator isn’t just something for politicians and nervous interface designers. It’s a feature designed to turn on and off to set a window of processing.
Read moreQuick Tip #28: Perl 6’s Schwartzian Transform
This is a really Quick Tip. It’s about the Schwartzian Transform, which makes things quicker.
Read moreQuick Tip #27: Read the docs locally
The p6doc command helps you read the Perl 6 docs. It’s in the Perl 6 documentation repo (so, it doesn’t come with Rakudo).
Read moreQuick Tip #26: Keep just the good parts
Ever wanted to break up a string based on the parts that you wanted to keep? You probably already know about split; it uses a pattern to find the parts […]
Read moreQuick Tip #25: Very literal Quoting
Perl 6 has a basic quoting mechanism that is as literal as it can be. It doesn’t escape anything and doesn’t interpolate anything. The Q does nothing special so you […]
Read moreQuick Tip #24: How long did that take?
I can use P6’s phasers to track how my program moves from one phase to the next. In particular, I’m curious about how much time my program spends in the […]
Read moreQuick Tip #23: Use prove to run Perl 6 tests
You can run Perl 6 tests with prove. Forget for a moment that prove is a Perl 5 tool. It’s just some tool that’s magically on your system. It’s a […]
Read moreQuick Tip #22: Use Perl 5 modules in Perl 6
Perl 6 has always had a goal of interacting with other languages. When Larry Wall announced the project in 2000, he talked about translate with 95-percent accuracy 95 percent of […]
Read moreQuick Tip #21: The rats in the machine
Let’s think about numbers. I’ve been inserting Kickstarter messages into my Quick Tips, but this post is about Kickstarter. Or, about their mistreatment of numbers. There’s no scandal, just those […]
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