foy, brian d. Learning Perl 6: Keeping the Easy, Hard, and Impossible Within Reach (Kindle Location 557). O'Reilly Media. Kindle Edition.
Chapter 2: Binding and Assignment: "There’s an important concept here that you should learn early." [[ what follows in the most concise and understandable explanation that I have found yet to the question you raised ]] As I'm going through Learning Perl 6, he's really done a fantastic job of answering tons of the questions that I've been tracking in this mailing list. Uncanny really. The author rolls the angles just right and I'm having mini-epiphanies one after another. So recommended... Mark -----Original Message----- From: ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 21:02 To: perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Please explain this to me On 09/16/2018 05:58 PM, Curt Tilmes wrote: > Read this: > https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2017/12/02/perl-6-sigils-variables-a > nd-containers/ > > Then go back and read it again. It took me several times, and I'm > still not sure I get it all :) I am spacing on the difference between my $foo = 42; and my $foo := 42; To add insult to injury, I come from Modula2, where `:=` is `=` in Perl. -T
