Using Perl 6
by Jonathan S. Duff, et al.
2012
Number of pages: 135
Description:
This book is primarily for people who want to learn Perl 6. It teaches the basics from a Perl 6 perspective, touching on variable interpolation, datastructure use, object construction, threads, closures, symbol tables, and other core features. It then introduces continuations, coroutines, binding, hyper operators that work on lists of data at once, set operators that work on complex datatypes, lightweight multidimensional arrays, etc.
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