Note that = is actually a meta operator that can take an infix operator as an argument
So
$a += 1
is really short for
$a [+]= 1
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:02 AM Todd Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 10/4/18 12:13 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > It's fine syntactically, but I think has no effect because it'd be '$v =
> > $v' after the '+|='. Conceivably some future version of rakudo could
> > warn about it having no effect.
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> That explains it. Thank you!
