The Perl 6 Express
The Perl 6 Express
By Jonathan Worthington (jnthn)
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15
Duration: 130 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: 6 perl
This talk digs straight into the practicalities of writing Perl 6: getting yourself a build to play with and then starting to write code. Topics covered will include:
* How to obtain and build the latest Rakudo Perl 6
* Variables
* Basic control flow (conditionals and loops)
* Chained comparisons
* Meta-operators (hypers, reductions, crosses)
* Basic use of junctions
* Subroutines, and the new signature syntax
* Writing classes using attributes, methods and inheritance
* Basic I/O
* Regexes and grammars
* Roles
Attended by: espizo, Carl Mäsak (masak), Christian Westgaard (ComLock), Nils Dahl, Jens-Petter Salvesen (Jeppe), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), Arne Sommer (Arne), Max Muzi (Maxim), Andreas Faafeng, Marcel Grünauer (Marcel), Martin Kjeldsen (baest), Salve J. Nilsen (sjn), Florian Ragwitz (rafl), Tarjei Vassbotn (tarjeiv), geira, Gabor Szabo (szabgab), Karl Rune Nilsen (krunen), Erik Johansen (uniejo), Bendik Heltne (bheltne), Leif Egil Olsen, Poul Sørensen (poul), Patrick Michaud (Pm), Jonathan Worthington (jnthn), km, Panu Ervamaa (pnu), Håkon Karlsen (haakonsk), Morten Byhring (moby), Claes Jakobsson (claes), Stian W. Arnesen, Dag Lem (dlem), Lars Nypan, Rune Sandbakken,