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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

Introspection

Perl 6 modules contain a mechanism that allows you to get information about the content of the module. Obtaining this meta-information is called introspection.

Take the Math.pm modules from the previous section, More on is export, as an example. This is how we can list all the methods that are exported by that module:

use Math;

say Math::EXPORT::.keys;

This refers to the default EXPORT sub, which the compiler generated for us. The sub returns an object of the EXPORT type that implements the Perl6::Metamodel::PackageHOW interface. We'll not go deep into that theory and will limit ourselves to calling a useful method keys that gives us a list of the tags available in the module:

(plusminus muldiv ALL)

Having the list of tags, we can iterate over them to get the list of subroutines that belong to them:

use Math;

say Math::EXPORT::plusminus::.keys;
say Math::EXPORT...
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