Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5

Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by tormeh on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:31PM (#8727149)

Yeah, but it would be neat if it was a word instead, for example "that". "*" is hilarious, though. How do you multiply in Perl if the star is taken? I also like that it's named "whatever star", reminds me of Scala's Pimp my Library feature[0]

0: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=179766

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by cygx on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:11PM (#8727299)

An asterisk is only a Whatever if it's in term position:

    (* * *)(2, 3)

will happily print 6.

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by Ultimatt on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:25AM (#8728542)

I'd like to point out there are magical errors put in to keep Perl6 code relatively sane too:

  > .map: ** * * * **
  ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling <unknown file>
  Multiple HyperWhatevers and Whatevers may not be used together

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by SwellJoe on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:28PM (#8727531)

I didn't find the whatever star funny until this point.

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by pwr22 on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @12:37AM (#8727856)

Whatever ;)

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by esaym on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @11:50PM (#8727743)

Perl has always had something called "context" :)

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