RFC 84 by Damian Conway: Replace => (stringifying comma) with => (pair constructor) Yet another nice goodie from Damian, truly what you might expect from the interlocutor and explicator! The fat comma operator, =>, was originally used to separate values – with a twist. It behave just like , operator did, but modified parsing toContinue reading “RFC 84 by Damian Conway: => => =>”
Tag Archives: operators
RFC 54, by Damian Conway: Operators: Polymorphic comparisons
This RFC was originally proposed on August 7th 2020 and frozen in six weeks. It described a frustration with comparison operations in Perl. The expression: “cat” == “dog” #True Perl (and now Raku) has excellent support for generic programming because of dynamic typing, generic data types and interface polymorphism. Just about the only place whereContinue reading “RFC 54, by Damian Conway: Operators: Polymorphic comparisons”
RFC 25, 76, 193: Worthy picks by Damian Conway
RFC 25, by Damian Conway: Operators: Multiway comparisons This RFC was originally proposed on August 4th and frozen in a month. It describes a simple and intuitive feature, making the code obey the Do What I Mean rule:
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