Look up ..^ which is the long form of ^ when used in ^8 sort of thing https://docs.raku.org/routine/..$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT
"Constructs a Range <https://docs.raku.org/type/Range> from the arguments, excluding the end point." try out these 3 .. 7 3 ..^ 7 3 ^.. 7 3 ^..^ 7 and also see https://docs.raku.org/routine/...html https://docs.raku.org/routine/$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT...html https://docs.raku.org/routine/$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT..$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT -y On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 9:42 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 12/30/20 6:04 PM, Curt Tilmes wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:40 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > >> In the following for loop: > >> > >> for ^$nCount -> $i { > >> > >> What is the ^ doing? > > > > https://docs.raku.org/type/Range About the third paragraph from the > top: > > > > The caret is also a prefix operator for constructing numeric ranges > > starting from zero: > > my $x = 10; > > say ^$x; # same as 0 ..^ $x.Numeric > > > > Thank you! > > In a for look, it looks like 0 through 9. Is that > the for loops doing? > >
