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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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Working with methods

In OOP, objects not only keep data, but also do some actions. In Perl 6, data is saved in attributes, and actions are done via methods.

Methods are like regular subs but defined inside a class. They can use the data from object attributes for their work.

Continue with the Address class from the previous sections. The details of the address are kept in separate attributes. This is good for creating a clean and structured representation but, in some cases, we need all data to be used together. For example, let's print a formatted address to put on an envelope:

class Address {
has Str $.housenumber;
has Str $.zipcode;
has Str $.country;
has Str $.town;
has Str $.street;
}

my $address = Address.new(
housenumber => '10',
zipcode => '1020',
country => 'Country',
town => &apos...
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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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