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Perl 6 Deep Dive

You're reading from   Perl 6 Deep Dive Data manipulation, concurrency, functional programming, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282049
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. What is Perl 6? FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Code 3. Working with Variables and Built-in Data Types 4. Working with Operators 5. Control Flow 6. Subroutines 7. Modules 8. Object-Oriented Programming 9. Input and Output 10. Working with Exceptions 11. Regexes 12. Grammars 13. Concurrent Programming 14. Functional Programming 15. Reactive Programming

Creating Pod documentation

Pod is a sublanguage inside Perl 6 used to write documentation. It can be considered as an extended version of comments, which allows more functionality in expressing the content. Pod in Perl 6 is the evolution of the POD (Plain Old Documentation) in Perl 5. In Perl 6, the name is not an abbreviation and thus is not capitalized. In this section, we will examine the syntax of the Pod markup language.

Pod content is placed in the same source file as the Perl 6 program itself. A Pod section is a series of lines containing some textual information. The compiler is switching between parsing Pod and Perl 6 when it sees the beginning and ending marks of the Pod section. Pod syntax is designed to express the semantics of the documentation and to help organize it in a more structured way.

Let's see how you create a Pod block. There are a few types of Pod...

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