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Andrew Shitov
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Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
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Meta-operators in Perl 6

So far, we have covered many of the operators that operate on regular operands—values, variables, objects, and so on. In Perl 6, there are operators of another kind—operators that operate over operators. These operators are called meta-operators. We will examine them in the following sections. With some exceptions, every meta-operator can take any regular operator to create a new operation that follows certain rules. Meta-operators also work with user-defined operators, which we will discuss later in this chapter, in the User-defined operators section.

Assignment meta-operator

The assignment meta-operator takes the op= form, where op is one of the operators available in Perl 6.

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Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
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