Perl 6 An Introduction to Perl 6 #19

Operator overloading

Programmers may overload existing operators or define new ones:

sub postfix:<!>(Int $n) {
    if ($n < 2) { return 1; }
    return $n * ($n-1)! ;
}

sub prefix:<±>($x) {  return (+$x | -$x); }

sub infix:<(c)> ($x, $y) {
    return "$x is copyright by $y";
}
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