This is an advance chapter of Learning Perl 6 by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy. It is incomplete and may contain merely notes or an outline for future work. It may also contain sections of their writing from other sources, although these are noted where possible.

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Introduction

* Perl 6 is unicode

* structure of a Perl program


* text file

* shebang

* single line comments

* multi-line comments

Perl 6 is an OO engine, but you're not generally required to think in OO when that's inconvenient. However, some built-in concepts such as filehandles will be more object-oriented in a user-visible way than in Perl 5.


  # $x can contain only Int objects
    my Int $x;

Installing pugs