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I really like sigils for several reasons and I do miss them when in non sigil languages - imo raku made two big improvements over perl that is to avoid changing the sigil on access…

in Raku, this is: class A { has $!bar; #private has $.baz; #public (with autogenerated accessors) method !foo {} #private method foz {} #public }

Hi @ritchie46 - I have just written [raku Dan]( https://github.com/p6steve/raku-Dan ) as a way to scratch the "data analytics" itch in a new way -- my next step is to write Dan::Po…

A single binary dependency may be a better fit for one project as you outline, but I would make the wider case for a common core language that provides a DSL toolkit with a recursi…

Yes, that’s precisely what I am trying to say. With FatRat (aka BigInt) by default then the casual programmer has to know to step explicitly into Num (eg by 1e-1 + 2e-1 which needs…

typing, roles/inheritance and multi dispatch together offer a very clean coding model that cuts through the usual if-then-else wool

great question @msvan - raku has many ... for me the unique genius of raku is to have stolen all of the best parts of type system, OO, grammars & regex, functional and procedural c…

'use Inline::XXX;' gives raku coders access to Perl5 (CPAN) and python modules

This is the natural result of building a publicly funded empire of literally hundreds of ex-perl hackers in a room and telling them (i) justify your job and (ii) you are not allowe…

this works now x for input and output ... the challenge for this kind of thing in bare code is that you need a LOT of namespace ... .oO maybe override the dot?

this is also important - but imo, and in practice from perl5, the Units library experience is a lot richer if you can do both - especially for entry level programmers such as high …