On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm announcing an
out-of-schedule release of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
This release is a point release in addition to the regular
releases. Rakudo 2019.07 (note: no .1) was discovered
I was just wondering if there's some direct analog in perl6 to the
perl5 construct:
while(<>){ ... }
If I'm planning on passing a filename on the command-line, I can just
get it out of $*ARGFILES easily enough, but what if I also wanted it
to work on lines passed in via standard input?
> On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:20 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
> I was just wondering if there's some direct analog in perl6 to the
> perl5 construct:
>
> while(<>){ ... }
>
> If I'm planning on passing a filename on the command-line, I can just
> get it out of $*ARGFILES easily enough, but what if
> Hmmm. I would expect that to be in the Perl 5 to Perl 6 Migration Guides, but
> I do not see it there.
Exactly, I was just looking there, and I ended up playing around with
the method form of lines, and didn't think to try the function
form of it.
To summarize, if the goal is to write a "simpl
