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Perl 6 Deep Dive

You're reading from  Perl 6 Deep Dive

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282049
Pages 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andrew Shitov Andrew Shitov
Profile icon Andrew Shitov

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

1. What is Perl 6? 2. Writing Code 3. Working with Variables and Built-in Data Types 4. Working with Operators 5. Control Flow 6. Subroutines 7. Modules 8. Object-Oriented Programming 9. Input and Output 10. Working with Exceptions 11. Regexes 12. Grammars 13. Concurrent Programming 14. Functional Programming 15. Reactive Programming

Using zef

Please note that this section describes a tool that is specific to the Rakudo Star distribution. At the time of writing, Rakudo is the only production-ready Perl 6 compiler available on the market. If you happen to use other compilers, please check their documentation on how to install modules.

The Rakudo Star distribution comes with a handy module management tool called zef. Notice that it has been part of the distribution since Rakudo Star version 2017.01. Earlier releases include another tool, panda, which has now become obsolete.

zef is a command-line tool written in Perl 6. After installing Rakudo Star, its executable file will be in the Rakudo/share/perl6/site/bin directory. The Rakudo installer also fixes the PATH environment variable so that it contains a correct path to the directories with executable files of the distribution.

This tool uses the ecosystem of...

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