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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

Working with attributes

In the previous section, we created the House class, which did not contain anything. Real houses do have some parameters, such as address, area in square meters, number of rooms, height, and so on. All that can be expressed using Perl 6.

Let us start adding the details to the class. We start with the most simple element, the number of rooms. This parameter can be described by an integer value that is attached to the object of the House type. In Perl 6, such data elements are called attributes and are declared with the has keyword, as shown in the following example:

class House {
has $.rooms;
}

What has been done here? The House class got an attribute $.rooms. This is a scalar value that belongs to the class object. Notice the dot after the dollar sigil. It is a twigil that describes the access level to the attribute; we will talk about it later in this...

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