Raku Programming

Raku is a successor of the Perl programming language, representing a major backwards-incompatible rewrite of the language. It's a versatile and powerful multi-paradigm programming language. This book is going to introduce the reader to the Raku language and its many features.

• Introduction
• Perl History
• Implementations

• Variables and Data
• Types and Context
• Basic Operations
• Control Structures
• Subroutines
• Blocks and Closures
• Classes And Attributes
• Comments and POD

• Regular Expressions
• Grammars
• Operator Overloading
• Language Extensions

• Junctions
• Lazy Lists and Feeds
• Meta Operators
• Roles and Inheritance

• Advanced Subroutines
• Exceptions and Handlers
• Property Blocks

• Coroutines
• Threading
• Save States

• Files

• Packages
• Modules

• CPAN
• Migrating from Perl 5
• Getting Involved