Working with Operators

Operators are the elements of the syntax of the language which perform actions over their operands and return a result. Perl 6 is a language with dozens of operators. Some of them are inherited from Perl 5 (directly or with modifications), some were invented especially for Perl 6. On top of the set of regular operators, Perl 6 defines the so-called meta-operators and hyper-operators, which extend the meaning of regular operators for working on a group of values.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Operator classification
• Unary operators
• Binary operators
• Ternary operator
• Bitwise operators
• Miscellaneous operators
• Operator precedence
• Substitution meta-operators
• Assignment meta-operators
• Negation meta-operators
• Reversed meta-operators
• Creating hyper-operators
• Types of hyper-operations
• Reduction hyper-operators
• Cross hyper-operators
• Zip hyper-operator
• Sequential hyper-operators