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A collection of useful Raku snippets
# 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;
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