> On 12 Jan 2025, at 04:46, Kevin Pye <kjpr...@pye.id.au> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, at 14:01, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Is
>>    Q[...]
>> 
>> the same thing as
>>    <...>
>> ?
> 
> No.
> 
> Q[…] is the bare quoting construct. There'll be no interpolation of 
> variables, no splitting into words, nothing other than creating a bare string.
> 
> But Q also takes various adverbs to add all the nice extra available 
> features. <…> is the same as Q:w:v[…]. The :w will split the input into words 
> and return a list rather than a single string. :v will create allomorphs 
> where possible. For example the substring "12" will create an allomorph which 
> can act as either the string "12" or the number 12.
> 
> The is all explained much better than I can in 
> https://docs.raku.org/language/quoting

And in a more whimsical approach: 
https://raku-advent.blog/2023/12/10/day-10-the-magic-of-q/

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