OK, different paradigm, different methods. Thanks.
Another couple of entries for the "differences" list? Even a note the thing doesn't exist saves fruitless further searching. On 9/14/18, Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:08 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is probably going to be a forehead-slapper, but I can't find a >> reference in either perlintro.com or http://docs.perl6.org/ >> (5to6-perlfunc or top-down) for the equivalents of $? and $! in >> P6.What are they? >> >> I want to be able to "run" or "shell" programs, then examine return >> codes and errors. (The immediate case is to see if a program name is >> already in use by running "which $progname". ) > > my $proc = run <echo Hello World>, :out, :!in; > say $proc.out.slurp; > say $proc.exitcode; >