A couple years ago I wrote a little Perl6 in response to a challenge, and it took me a while to figure out BUILD, BUILDALL, and new(). Learning the object model meant reading what was available on the web plus some time on the #perl6 IRC channel. I managed to get it all working properly for my little code, but it didn't make complete sense to me until later when I did a Perl5 project with Moose. Moose's cookbooks, examples, and documentation explained the concepts & implementation a few different ways. Moose borrowed a lot from Perl6, and it helped me understand the why's & how's of Perl6.
Alas, Perl6's "distributed docs" is a known issue (so much to write!). As an illustration, this thread got me curious as to these .+ and .* operators and Perl6's "TEARDOWN", so I searched for "perl6 object teardown". The first link I clicked from that search was http://doc.perl6.org/language/objects - which is a great intro - but it doesn't mention teardown/destruction, nor these operators. "perl6 object +teardown" didn't seem to return any user-facing docs at all, other than "Apocalypses" which are not current. Searching for "perl6 object destroy" shows me that it is implemented via http://perl6.org/compilers/features - with no links to spec or code. I enjoy reading these explanations as to how these operators are useful, and the example referencing TEARDOWN, can they go into some documentation for future readers? In a context to help me see how they fit? Or is there already a doc that I'm not seeing in my searches? -y
