Hi,
Sorry, my previous message got away from me a little to soon.
I'll stand by it without the last partial sentence,
and, more important, the addition of a greeting and
some good will.
Thanks,
Rob
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:54:11PM -0400, rir wrote:
>
> This is sharing a 'What?!!' moment and some aftermath with the
> hope of some reduction of ignorance.
>
> This is from some code I found:
>
> say my %h = % = %(:a(1)); # OUTPUT: «{a => 1}»
>
> All whitespace after the identifier is optional--not changing the
> assignment.
>
> Reduced further:
>
> say % = %(:a(1)); # OUTPUT: «{a => 1}»
>
> I don't know what the free-standing '%' means; my guess is that
> it accepts the result of the assign-op as a term. So it is the
> same as the last '%'.
>
> Is that correct? Correct as Raku code and as what is happening.
>
> Why, in the ' %= ' variant, is neither of these failing?
> Is it not ambiguous with the '%=' operator?
>
> And I found that '%=' is also indexed in the docs as a twigil,
> but it is not in the docs. Is i
>
>
