Perl6 : Signatures, Types and Multimethods

By: Simon Proctor (‎Scimon‎) from London.pm
Date: Thursday, 16 August 2018 11:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: perl6

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One of the biggest changes between Perl5 and Perl6 is a much more robust and fully featured signatures system. Combine this with the languages type system and multi methods and you have a multitude of different options for specifying how a function can be called.
This talk will take you through the various options including :
- Signatures and Parameters
- Typing, Sub Typing and where clauses
- Multi Methods and the call chain
By the end of the talk you'll have a thorough understanding of the intricacies of Perl6 functions and methods.


Attended by: Fernando Santagata, Simon Proctor (‎Scimon‎), sotona, Daniel Mita (‎m.dango‎), Salve J. Nilsen (‎sjn‎), Thomas Klausner (‎domm‎), Renee Bäcker (‎reneeb‎), Laurent Rosenfeld (‎lolo78‎), Moray Jones, Roland Schmitz (‎roli‎), Erik Johansen (‎uniejo‎), Snorri Briem, Aaron Crane (‎arc‎), Dan Muey, Lance Wicks, Steffen Winkler (‎STEFFENW‎), cono, Dave Cross (‎davorg‎), José Joaquín Atria (‎JJ‎)

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