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