Exegesis 7

Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 7 for the current design information. What a piece of work is Perl 6! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In…

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Synopsis 6

Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. This document summarizes Apocalypse 6, which covers subroutines and the new type system. Subroutines and Other Code…

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Exegesis 3

Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 3 for the current design information. Diamond lives (context-aware); Underscore space means concatenate; fat comma means pair; A pre-star will flatten; colon-equals will…

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Exegesis 2

Exegesis 2 -> Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 2 for the current design information. exegesis: n. an interpretation and explanation of a text, esp. Holy Writ This is the…

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Bless My Referents

Introduction Damian Conway is the author of the newly released Object Oriented Perl, the first of a new series of Perl books from Manning. Object-oriented programming in Perl is easy. Forget the heavy theory and the sesquipedalian jargon: classes…

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