is Raku A class that provides the same internal language information as the Raku class. Only maintained for historical reasons.
Type Graph §
Perl
Routines supplied by class Raku §
Perl inherits from class Raku, which provides the following routines:
(Raku) method compiler §
Instance method returning the compiler object, of type Compiler, associated with the Raku object.
(Raku) method DISTROnames §
Instance / Class method returning the names of the Distro objects that are supported by this version of Raku.
(Raku) method KERNELnames §
Instance / Class method returning the names of the Kernel objects that are supported by this version of Raku.
(Raku) method VMnames §
Instance / Class method returning the names of the VM objects that are supported by this version of Raku.
Routines supplied by role Systemic §
Perl inherits from class Raku, which does role Systemic, which provides the following routines:
(Systemic) method auth §
Instance method returning the "auth" (as in "author" or "authority") of the object. Returns "unknown" if the "auth" could not be established.
(Systemic) method config §
Instance returning a hash with object configuration information. Subject to change without notice, but can be helpful in environments where only one type of virtual machine is in use, or to find about the configuration of any other object that mixes in this role.
(Systemic) method desc §
Instance method returning the "desc" (as in "description") of the VM object. Returns a Str type object if the "desc" could not be established.
(Systemic) method name §
Instance method returning the name of the object.
(Systemic) method signature §
Instance method returning the signature of the object. Returns a Blob type object if the signature could not be established.
(Systemic) method version §
Instance method returning the version of the object as a Version object. Returns a Version object "unknown" if the version could not be established.
(Systemic) method gist §
method gist( Systemic: )Instance method returning the name and version of the object.
say .gist; # OUTPUT: «Raku (6.d)»$*RAKU is an object of the Raku type, which mixes in this role and thus implements this method.
(Systemic) method Str §
method StrInstance method returning the name of the object.
say .Str; # OUTPUT: «Raku»