Hi William,
I guess that you now have answers to your questions. I would suggest,
however, that you take a look as Andrew Shitov's book *Raku One-Liners*,
available on-line (
https://andrewshitov.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Raku-One-Liners.pdf).
There are (around page 12) some explanations on
On 2020-05-06 William Michels via perl6-users
wrote:
> Are there any other "operators that modify their operands" in
> Raku/Perl6 that don't require an initializing "." (dot)?
The dot is used to call a method on an object.
> I checked the "subst" command and it requires an initial ".=" when
> us
