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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

User-defined operators

Perl 6 allows creating new operators. Unlike, for example, C++, new operators are not restricted to the predefined list of existing operators. You are free to name the operators as you want and choose a new combination of characters.

A user-defined operator should belong to one of the preceding-mentioned categories, such as infix, prefix, or circumfix, and so on.

Let's start with creating a new infix operator, +%, which calculates the sum of two numeric operands, but the result does not exceed 100:

sub infix:<+%>($a, $b) {
my $sum = $a + $b;
return $sum < 100 ?? $sum !! 100;
}

Defining an operator is similar to creating a subroutine, but the name of it should contain the name of the category and the operator itself.

It is now time to test the just created +% operator:

say 10 +% 20; # 30
say 40 +% 70; # 100

Another expressive example is...

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