Perl 6 Deep Dive

Quote-word operator

The quote-word operator < > creates a list using the whitespace-separated data place between the angle brackets.

The following example prints a list containing three elements:

say <a b c>; # (a b c)

There is no need to quote elements inside the < > operator. Now, let's save the created array in a variable and see its contents:

my @a = < 1-3 two 3+6 four 5/7 >;say @a.elems;say @a.join('|');

In this program, five elements are put into the @a array, as shown here:

51-3|two|3+6|four|5/7

The elements are separated by whitespaces, so constructions like 1-3 or 5/7 are treated as strings.