What does trans return in numeric (+) context?

On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Carl Mäsak <cma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is "character counting" done in Perl 6?
>
> In Perl 5, it is `scalar tr/CG//` if I want to count the number of Cs
> plus the number of Gs in a string.
>
> S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but
> very different beast. Specifically, it doesn't seem to have a "scalar
> context", with which one could count things.
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>

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