Consider a junction of digits: say any 0..9; # OUTPUT: any(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) This carries ‘any’ as a type of operation and 0..9 as a list of eigenstates internally. In a smartmatch context, this can match any object that can smartmatch against any of its digit eigenstates. WhileContinue reading “Day 15: Junction transformers”
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RFC22: Control flow: Builtin switch statement, by Damian Conway
The problem C has switch/case, and many other languages either copied it, or created a similar construct. Perl in 2000 didn’t have any such thing, and this was seen as a lack. A Tale of Two Languages This RFC not only became two (related) features, it did so in both Perl and Raku with dramaticallyContinue reading “RFC22: Control flow: Builtin switch statement, by Damian Conway”
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