A collection of useful Raku snippets

My Raku Recipes and Idioms

# My Raku Recipes and Idioms

Here's a collection of Raku code snippets I use with explanations. Maybe you'll
also find them useful or If you find them useful you know better ways to accomplish things,
just let me know in the comments.

## Object construction

### Simpler construction

One thing I don't like about object construction in Raku is by default
you have to pass in a Pair object: `Blah.new(attr => 'blah')`. This is fine,
especially if you need to initialize a lot of attributes. But for objects
 that take one obvious argument, it's overkill and you just want to do
`Blah.new('blah')`. But at the same time, you don't want to remove the longer Pair
 notation.

 So here's a way to get the best of both worlds:

```raku
class Box {
    has $!data;

    method new( $d = '', :$data = $d ) {
        self.bless(:$data);
    }
}

The compiler won't blink and the program will silently continue executing as if nothing is wrong.

my $box = Box.new('hi');
#say $box.data;