Perl 6 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, the Core Modules, and the Community

© J.J. Merelo 2019

J. MereloPerl 6 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4956-7_7

7. Storing Data: Containers

How to Store Data into Variables, Specify Where Those Containers Can Be Seen, and How They Can Change or Be Destructured

J. J. Merelo¹ 

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Granada, Spain

 

When learning the syntax of a new programming language it’s important to understand every piece of what’s going on separately: how you write different types, what functions are available to process them, and how you make decisions in a program. These actions work literally by analyzing and acting on every character of every line and every statement created by those characters.

So far, you have worked with statements that can be written in a single line, either in the REPL ...