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These are the Perl 6 Tablets, a comprehensive manual, aimed to support many different ways of learning. The content is nicely sorted and indexed and many links allow you to follow your interest freely. For a lightweight introduction, try the Perl 6 Tutorial. If its too easy, read the specs.
DISCLAIMER: This docs moved to tablets.perl6.org/ and no longer represent the current state. Tablet 2: Basic Syntax (Spaces, Comments, Literals, Quoting, Formatting) Tablet 3: Variables (Sigils, Twigils, Assignment, Typing, Scopes) Tablet 4: Operators (Comparison, Math, String, Logic, Metaops) Tablet 5: IO (Command Line, Files, Sockets, Network, Misc.) Tablet 6: Blocks (Conditions, Loops) Tablet 7: Subroutines (Signatures, Modules) Tablet 8: Objects (Classes, Roles) Tablet 9: Regex (Rules, Grammars) Tablet 10: Metaprogramming (Macros, DSL) Appendix A: Index (all ops, builtins, methods and it terms, alphabetically ordered) Appendix B: Tables, short reference (cheat sheets ans summary tables) Appendix C: Cookbook (chunks of everyday Perl 5, translated into idiomatic Perl 6) This tutorial was written for $foo Perl magazine and was published from winter 2007 until autumn 2009, later also in the wiki of the german Perl community. Much editing is being done afterwards to keep the content valid, because Perl 6 is still moving. To understand this tutorial you need basic Perl and general programming skills. Most terms are explained on the way. If you would like to deepen your knowledge, read the Perl 6 Tablets. Part 2 : Operators for Scalars Part 4 : Hashes and control structures Part 5 : Captures and Subroutines What Is This Character Here (WITCH)?The Perl 6 WITCH is mostly a bunch of hyperlinks that allows one to find documentation for operators, special variables and other features when there is a "mystery character" whose usage is not understood. Start by clicking on the character you do not understand the usage of. You will be brought to a page that tells how the character is used and/or can point you to compound operators or other uses for the character. < left pointy In addition to a handy way to find out what an operator does, it also helps show how Perl 6 tries to allocate characters to uses that have similar or related semantics, by collecting a list of the various uses of a character in one place. Also mentioned are uses of characters from Perl5 and some other languages, so the index can also be used in a "how do I?" fashion. Want to help build this? Make sure your favorite character, usage, or feature is documented... and that your favorite documentation is linked in. See the WITCH guidelines for some tips. If any characters are being interpreted as markup where they shouldn't be, enclose them in {{}}. |
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