Course of Raku / Advanced

Containers

How Raku actually holds values — scalar and ordered containers, contexts, subscript adverbs, special variables, and container introspection.

• Understanding Raku containers
• Scalar containers — 3 exercises
  • Data types and scalar containers
  • Type constraints — 1 quiz
  • Default values
  • Proxying method calls
• Ordered containers — 3 exercises
  • Arrays
  • Lists — 1 quiz
  • Binding with :=
  • Flattening and itemisation — 1 quiz
• Contexts 🆕 — 3 exercises
  • Numeric, string, and Boolean context — 1 quiz
  • Item and list context — 1 quiz
• Subscript adverbs 🆕 — 3 exercises
  • Exists and delete — 1 quiz
  • Keys, values, and pairs
• Special and dynamic variables 🆕 — 3 exercises
  • Twigils — 1 quiz
  • Dynamic variables — 1 quiz
  • Built-in special variables — 1 quiz
• Introspecting containers — 3 exercises
  • Using WHAT — 1 quiz
  • Using VAR
  • WHO and HOW