On 2020-05-25 14:00, Brad Gilbert wrote:
In the following the ｢:｣ makes it so you don't need parenthesis
You have created a monster!
> my $s="a:c"; say $s.index: ":"
1
:-)
A lambda is a function that doesn't have a name, or a location.
my $var = *.raku();
say $var.( Date.today );
# Date.new(2020,5,25)
The long way to write that would be:
my $var = anon sub ( $_ ) { .raku() };
So this is passing in a function to sort, to calculate the value that
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:24 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:
Hi All,
Looking at the following:
> my @things = .sort: *.Version; dd
@things; for @things {say $_;}
Array @things = ["a1b33", "a1", "a2rc2", "a2.3", "a5.1", "b1a23"]
a
In the following the ｢:｣ makes it so you don't need parenthesis
(…).sort: …
(…).sort(…)
The reason there needs to be a space is so it isn't confused for an adverb.
｢*.Version｣ is a method call turned into a lambda.
Basically it creates a lambda where the only thing it does is call a met
