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proposed table of Raku vs. Perl 6 deprecations (#3252)
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developers with wide experience whilst also being accessible to newcomers to the
language.
Note the recent name change to Raku from Perl 6 has resulted in some objects
having changed names and their former names, while still available, are
deprecated and their use is not recommended in new code. Those items
are shown in the following table:
=begin table :caption<Raku object names versus deprecated Perl 6 names>
Raku | Perl 6 | Notes
=====+========+======
raku | perl | routine
*RAKULIB | PERL6LIB | environment variable for module paths (*NYI)
.raku | .p6 | file extension for Raku scripts
.rakumod | .pm6 | file extension for Raku modules
=end table
For a quick hands-on introduction, there is a short
L<C<annotated programming example>|/language/101-basics>.
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