Very basic notes on my Perl 6 code / development

Environment

• Perl 6 on Parrot - Rakudo - http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
  • This will download and install Parrot (perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot)
• VIM Syntax highlight - http://github.com/petdance/vim-perl

Testing

• Examples - http://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples

Modules

• My own modules
  • (todo)
• Difficult, but no C required
  • Log::Log4perl
• Desirable, but C required
  • PerlMagick

Examples

From: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=771635

• opening a file, writing something to it, and closing it Perl 6 Examples File
• reading in the list of files in a given directory [[Perl6_Examples_File?]]
• doing search/replace on a string [[Perl6_Examples_Search_and_Replace?]]
• sorting and uniq'ing a list of strings [[Perl6_Examples_Sort_and_Uniq?]]
• basics of using hashes [[Perl6_Examples_Hashes?]]
• reading user input from stdin [[Perl6_Examples_Input?]]
• writing a function [[Perl6_Examples_Subs_and_Functions?]]
• writing a simple class [[Perl6_Examples_Simple_Class?]]
• accessing environment variables [[Perl6_Examples_Environment_Variables?]]

More...

• [[Perl6_Example_References?]]

Useful References

Learning Perl 6

• Perl5 to Perl6 Scalars - http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/06/1245164696.html
• Tips and tricks - http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html
• Learning Perl 6 (wip) - http://www.learningperl6.com/
• More Perl6 Examples