Damian Conway writes: > Unary ~> would (by analogy to unary dot) append the current topic to the > argument list of its operand. > > Thus, your examples become simply: > > given @list { > ~> grep /bad!/ ~> @throw; > ~> grep /good/ ~> @keep; > } > > And: > > given @list { > ~> grep length == 1 ~> @onecharthings; > ~> grep [0..29] ~> @numberslessthan30; > ~> grep /^\w+$/ ~> @words; > ~> grep $_%2==0 ~> @evennumbers; > } > > Damian >
but if I dont want to force @list in scalar context ??? since ~> and friends are _pure_ grammar while given is not , probably we can have unary postfix ~> ( or |~> ) { @list ~> ; # ( or @list |~> ; ) ~> grep length == 1 ~> @onecharthings; ~> grep [0..29] ~> @numberslessthan30; ~> grep /^\w+$/ ~> @words; ~> grep $_%2==0 ~> @evennumbers; } as a way to multiplex @list arcadi