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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

Junctions

Junctions are one of the simplest examples of where Perl 6 can work in parallel. In the version of Rakudo, which is available at the time of writing this book, this feature is not fully implemented.

A junction is a value that keeps many values at the same time. Examine the following code:

my $j = 1 | 3 | 5;
say 'OK' if $j == 3;
say 'Not OK' if $j != 2;

The variable $j is a junction that keeps three odd numbers, 1, 3, and 5. You may compare $j with an integer and get the Boolean True if the value is one of the values hosted by the junction. In the case of comparing with 3, the result is True , while the second comparison with 2 fails.

Autothreading

Now try passing a junction to a function that takes...

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