Re: the new raku.org is really beautiful (and tought about spurt)

> On 7 Sep 2025, at 10:51, Marc Chantreux <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just gave a look on the new raku.org website and would like to
> congrat as it's really beautiful.

It is  :-)


> Aside, I saw the example which reminds me an old dicsussion about
> "spurt parameters should be flipped" and there is a perfect exemple
> in the homepage:
> 
> my $content = "example.txt".IO.slurp;       # Read file
> $content ~~ s/Hello/Hi/;                    # Modify content
> spurt $filename, $content;                  # Write back to file

FWIW, I don't know why that example isn't doing:

$filename.IO.spurt($content)

as the same .IO coercer is used on slurping the file.

Or even as a one-liner:

$filename.IO.spurt( "example.txt".IO.slurp.subst("Hello","Hi") )


> which could be writen
> 
> with "example.txt".IO.slurp {
> s/Hello/Hi/;
> spurt $filename, $_
> }
> 
> but it we were able to write this:
> 
> with "example.txt".IO.slurp {
> s/Hello/Hi/;
> .&spurt: $filename;
> }
> 


I really dislike indirect object syntax used this way.  What does this bring?  Why not just $filename.spurt($_) ?

> or if Str had a spurt method:
> 
> with "example.txt".IO.slurp {
> s/Hello/Hi/;
> .spurt: $filename;
> }

Now *that* I find to be an interesting idea.  The oneliner would then become:

  "example.txt".IO.slurp.subst("Hello","Hi").spurt($filename)

which has a nice left-to-right feel.