The Perl 6 Express
By Jonathan Worthington (jnthn) from Bratislava.pm
Date: Saturday, 28 February 2009 13:00
Duration: 120 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
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
* Basic use of junctions
* Subroutines, and the new signature syntax
* Writing classes using attributes, methods and inheritance
* Regexes and grammars
* Basic I/O
* Roles
* Types