Raku Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

© J.J. Merelo 2020

J. MereloRaku Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6258-0_17

17. Fun One-Liners

J. J. Merelo¹ 

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Granada, Granada, Spain

 

Raku is a expressive language with functional features. This makes it relatively easy to capture user and system input in one end of the pipeline, and spew processed data or any kind of action out the other end. Contests such as the Perl and Raku Challenge also emphasize short programs, which has given rise to a whole lot of simple scripts that are powerful, albeit sometimes illegible in other languages. However, Raku strives for expressivity, so it’s much easier to understand them and create them with Raku.

These one-liners also employ very creative programming patterns. We use them as an ingredient in ...