Re:Why Would Anyone Use Perl 6?
by grondilu on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:19AM
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By set operations I was more specifically thinking of intersection and union. Testing if an element belongs to a set can indeed be done with junctions but that's pretty much it.
The third example shows the so-called auto-threading behavior. I think it's significantly different than what you can do with sets.
A Junction in Perl 6 is "a superposition of data values pretending to be a single value". So for instance any algebraic expression can be used with a junction as if it was a scalar. The result will be a junction.
In this example the expression is $_ %% 2, which is Perl 6's way of writing the boolean statement "the variable $_ is divisible by 2". We use this expression with ($a & $b) instead of $_.
The third example shows the so-called auto-threading behavior. I think it's significantly different than what you can do with sets.
A Junction in Perl 6 is "a superposition of data values pretending to be a single value". So for instance any algebraic expression can be used with a junction as if it was a scalar. The result will be a junction.
In this example the expression is $_ %% 2, which is Perl 6's way of writing the boolean statement "the variable $_ is divisible by 2". We use this expression with ($a & $b) instead of $_.