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An improved version of L</grep>, written in Perl (L<beyondgrep.com>).
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An improved version of L</grep>, written in Perl (L<http://beyondgrep.com>).
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Also used by old folks to indicated acknowledgement.
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The class from which most things derive, except for L</junction>s.
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The class from which most things derive, except for L</Junction>s.
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A junction with "or" semantics.
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A Junction with "or" semantics.
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Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This. Well, stop doing it then.
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"Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This." Well, stop doing it then.
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One of the opposites of "lazy".
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One of the opposites of L</lazy>.
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The creation of another process in Perl 6.
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The creation of another process.
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A summary, or a method on objects that is invoked by L</say> to print out the
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See L<https://gist.github.com> for the last usage.
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The distributed source revision system used by many, if not all Perl 6
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A compound type that is transparent to many operations. See
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A measure of how popular something is on L</IRC>. Example:
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Perl Authors Upload SErvice. The place where author upload their distributions
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to L</CPAN>.
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Successor to L<PAST>.
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array, hash, or code variable. See also L</twigil>.
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The Perl 5 style argument list.
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Something you should stop using, and use subroutine signatures instead.
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