On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 5:08 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 09/30/2017 02:20 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > >> This doc page should help you a lot with this topic: >> >> https://docs.perl6.org/language/subscripts#Basics >> >> > A little bit. I had found that when I was researching. It did not > go into who to use a variable as a key value. > It does, but indirectly because it's based on single vs. double quoting and refers you there. This concept gets reused enough that it's not separately described for every place where it is used; the documentation would be impossible to manage, almost as impossible to read, and often out of sync with itself if every reused concept had to be fully explained everywhere it is used. Basically: < > is single quotes and treats variables and expressions as literals. << >> is double quotes and interpolates variables but not general expressions. And { } does no quoting at all and uses general expressions. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
