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are - produce the common type / role of a list of objects
use are; say are 1,1.2,pi; # (Real) say (1,1.2,pi,i).&are; # (Numeric) say (1,"one").&are; # (Cool) say are DateTime.now, Date.today); # (Dateish)
The are
subroutine (the only subroutine exported by this module) returns the most common class or role from a list of objects.
It was introduced in Rakudo release 2022.01 as a method on Any
. It is provided here to allow the functionality to be used with older versions of Rakudo.
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/are . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
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Copyright 2022 Elizabeth Mattijsen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.