Perl6 Operator List

[Michael Lazzaro]

Since it's been a full month since the start of the monster "operator precedence" thread, here's what I've been able to gather as the revised, new-and-improved list of Perl6 operators, IF we did all the xor/cat/regex-related changes as discussed as of this moment. ;-) I think this list is accurate and complete so far, LMK?

unary (prefix) operators:

\ - reference to
$ - dereference scalarref
@ - dereference arrayref
% - dereference hashref
& - dereference coderef
* - list flattening
? - force to bool context
! - force to bool context, negate
+ - force to numeric context
- - force to numeric context, negate
~ - force to string context
. - method call on current topic

-X - filetest operators

++ - preincrement
-- - predecrement

unary (postfix) operators:

++ - postincrement
-- - postdecrement

other postfix operators:

[] - array access
{} - hash access

hyperoperators:

^ - as prefix to any unary/binary operator, "vectorizes" the operator

binary operators:
+ - * / % ** x ~ << >>
+= -= *= /= %= **= x= ~= <<= >>=

< > <= => == != <=>
lt gt le ge eq ne cmp

&& || !! // - boolean operations
&&= ||= !!= //=
and or xor

.& .| .! - bitwise operations
.&= .|= .!=

& | ! - superpositional
all any one (none?)

~~ !~ - smartmatch and/or perl5 '=~' (?)
like unlike

=> - pair creator
, - list creator
; - "lesser comma", list-of-lists creator
: - adverbial
. - method call
.= - (?)
-> - like 'sub'

.. - range
... - yada**3

= - assignment
:= - binding
::= - binding, but more so

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trinary operators:

?? ::

parens, misc, and quotelike operators:

()

m//
s/// - still around, but maybe shorthand for something else
tr///

'...' "..." `...` /.../
q qq qx qr qw

(heredocs) - (exact format unknown)


named unary (prefix) operators:

my our temp
not ref defined undef
length exists delete

sqrt log sin cos tan
lc lcfirst uc ucfirst
int ord oct hex (bin?)

(...etc...)


MikeL