Day 8 — Make your Perl 6 grammar compact

Welcome to Day 8 of this year’s Perl 6 Advent Calendar!

Grammars are among many things that make Perl 6 a great programming language. I would not even try predicting the result of a poll to choose between grammars, Unicode support, concurrency features, hyper-operators, or the set syntax, or a Whatever star. Google found its own list of the best Perl 6 features published on the Internet.

Anyway, today we’ll be talking about Perl 6 grammars, and I will share a few tricks that I use to make the grammars more compact.