Raku fundamentals a primer with examples, projects, and case studies
Gain the skills to begin developing Raku applications from the ground up in this hands-on compact book, which includes a foreword from Larry Wall, creator of Perl. You'll learn enough to get started building with Raku, using Raku's gradual typing, handy object orientated features, powerful...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[United States]
Apress
2020
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| Edition: | 2nd edition |
| Series: | ITpro collection
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: What Is Raku?
- 1.1 Intended Audience
- 1.2 Perl 5: The Older Sister
- 1.3 Library Availability
- 1.4 Why Should I Use Raku?
- 1.5 Summary
- Chapter 2: Running Rakudo
- 2.1 Installers
- 2.2 Docker
- 2.3 Building from Source
- 2.4 Testing Your Rakudo Star Installation
- 2.5 Documentation
- 2.6 Summary
- Chapter 3: Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle
- 3.1 Making the Sudoku Playable
- 3.2 Shortcuts, Constants, and More Shortcuts
- 3.3 I/O and Other Tragedies
- 6.5.3 Improving Reliability and Timing
- 6.5.4 Installing a Module
- 6.6 Summary
- Chapter 7: Stateful Silent-Cron
- 7.1 Persistent Storage
- 7.2 Developing the Storage Back End
- 7.3 Using the Storage Back End
- 7.4 Room for Expansion
- 7.5 Summary
- Chapter 8: Review of the Raku Basics
- 8.1 Variables and Scoping
- 8.2 Subroutines
- 8.3 Classes and Objects
- 8.4 Concurrency
- 8.5 Outlook
- Chapter 9: Parsing INI Files Using Regexes and Grammars
- 9.1 Regex Basics
- 9.1.1 Character Classes
- 9.1.2 Quantifiers
- 9.1.3 Alternatives
- 9.2 Parsing the INI Primitives
- 3.4 Get Creative!
- 3.5 Summary
- Chapter 4: Datetime Conversion for the Command Line
- 4.1 Libraries to the Rescue
- 4.2 DateTime Formatting
- 4.3 Looking the Other Way
- 4.4 Dealing with Time
- 4.5 Tighten Your Seat Belt
- 4.6 MAIN Magic
- 4.7 Automated Tests
- 4.8 Summary
- Chapter 5: Testing say()
- 5.1 Summary
- Chapter 6: Silent-Cron: A Cron Wrapper
- 6.1 Running Commands Asynchronously
- 6.2 Implementing Timeouts
- 6.3 More on Promises
- 6.4 Possible Extensions
- 6.5 Refactoring and Automated Tests
- 6.5.1 Refactoring
- 6.5.2 Mocking and Testing
- Chapter 11: A Unicode Search Tool
- 11.1 Code Points, Grapheme Clusters, and Bytes
- 11.2 Numbers
- 11.3 Other Unicode Properties
- 11.4 Collation
- 11.5 Summary
- Chapter 12: Creating a Web Service and Declarative APIs
- 12.1 Getting Started with Cro
- 12.2 Expanding the Service
- 12.3 Testing
- 12.4 Adding a Web Page
- 12.5 Declarative APIs
- 12.6 Summary
- Chapter 13: What's Next?
- 13.1 Scaling Your Code Base
- 13.2 Packaging Your Application
- 13.2.1 Packaging As a Traditional Raku Module
- 13.2.2 Deploying with Docker
- 13.2.3 Windows Installers
- 13.3 Closing Thoughts
- Includes bibliographical references
- 9.3 Putting Things Together
- 9.4 Backtracking
- 9.5 Grammars
- 9.6 Extracting Data from the Match
- 9.7 Generating Good Error Messages
- 9.7.1 Failure Is Normal
- 9.7.2 Detecting Harmful Failure
- 9.7.3 Providing Context
- 9.7.4 Shortcuts for Parsing Matching Pairs
- 9.8 Write Your Own Grammars
- 9.9 Summary
- Chapter 10: A File and Directory Usage Graph
- 10.1 Reading File Sizes
- 10.2 Generating a Tree-Map
- 10.3 Flame Graphs
- 10.4 Functional Refactorings
- 10.5 More Language Support for Functional Programming
- 10.6 More Improvements
- 10.7 Explore!
- 10.8 Summary