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).
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Quick 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 more6 Things About 6, at NY.pm
I gave a short talk to the New York Perl mongers about six things I like at Perl 6. I wouldn’t label these as the most groundbreaking, novel, or exciting […]
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 […]
Read moreQuick Tip #20: Way off base
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 […]
Read moreQuick Tip #19: Build reusable data types
Perl 6 lets you constrain variable values with types, but you don’t have to limit yourself to the built-in types. Once defined, these act like the built-in types. Here are […]
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