Course of Raku / Advanced

Data types and scalars containers

As it can be understood from the name, scalar containers host single (scalar) values. Such containers are marked with the $ sigil.

Here is one of the simplest and direct use of scalars:

my $lang = 'Raku';

The $lang variable is a scalar container.

Scalar containers are type-irrelevant by default, so youy can host data of any type you need. The simplest demonstration of that is the fact that it is possible to reuse the same variable and store integers or strings in it:

my $value = 42;
$value = 'fourty-two';

Internally, this means that by default, a new container can keep values of the Any type. This is a base data type for other types such as Int or String.

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