Course of Raku / Essentials

More about types

How values change type and how to pin them down — coercion, typed variables, and the positional and associative containers.

• Data type conversion — 1 quiz and 3 exercises
  • Introspection with WHAT — 1 quiz
  • Converting types using type coercion methods
  • Converting types using constructor forms
  • Converting types with prefix operators
• Typed variables — 4 exercises
  • Type constraints — 1 quiz
  • Using of
  • Type conversion for typed variables — 1 quiz
  • Allomorphs
• Positional data types — 9 exercises
  • Arrays — 1 quiz
  • Nested arrays — 1 quiz
  • The @*ARGS array — 1 quiz
  • Interpolating arrays — 1 quiz
  • Lists — 1 quiz
  • Quoting string arrays — 2 quizzes
  • Subscripting ranges — 1 quiz
• Associative data types — 6 exercises
  • Pairs — 1 quiz
  • Hashes — 2 quizzes
  • Nested hashes — 1 quiz
  • Interpolating hashes — 1 quiz