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(Operators) term < > §
The quote-words construct breaks up the contents on whitespace and returns a List of the words. If a word looks like a number literal or a Pair literal, it's converted to the appropriate number.
say <a b c>[1]; # OUTPUT: «b»Language documentation: Operators §
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(Operators) postcircumfix < > §
Shortcut for postcircumfix { } that quotes its argument using the same rules as the quote-words operator of the same name.
my = kiwi => "green", banana => "yellow", cherry => "red";say <banana>; # OUTPUT: «yellow» say <cherry kiwi>.raku; # OUTPUT: «("red", "green")» say <strawberry>:exists; # OUTPUT: «False»Technically, not a real operator; it's syntactic sugar that's turned into the { } postcircumfix operator at compile-time.