Raku Programming

In this book, you will find a lot of short programs, so short that they can be written in a single line of code. The seven chapters will guide you through Raku’s syntax elements that help to create short, expressive, but still useful programs.

This book is intended to give you a quick overview of the Raku programming language. For those new to Raku, it should get you up and running.

This book is primarily for people who want to learn Perl 6 (Raku). It teaches the basics from a Perl 6 perspective, touching on variable interpolation, datastructure use, object construction, threads, closures, symbol tables, and other core features. It then introduces continuations, coroutines, binding (or aliases), hyper operators that work on lists of data at once, set operators that work on complex datatypes, lightweight multidimensional arrays, strong type checking, autoboxing, precompilation, automatic module dependency installation, and more.

This book is about Perl 6 (Raku), a programming language of the Perl family. It covers many basic and in-depth topics of the language and provides the initial knowledge you need to start working with Perl 6. The book does not require any previous experience with Perl, although some general understanding of programming is assumed.