NAME

Raku port of Perl's readlink() built-in

SYNOPSIS

use P5readlink;

say readlink("foobar"); # string if symlink, Nil if not

with "foobar" {
    say readlink; # string if symlink, Nil if not
}

DESCRIPTION

This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's readlink built-in as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.

ORIGINAL PERL DOCUMENTATION

readlink EXPR
readlink
        Returns the value of a symbolic link, if symbolic links are
        implemented. If not, raises an exception. If there is a system
        error, returns the undefined value and sets $! (errno). If EXPR is
        omitted, uses $_.

        Portability issues: "readlink" in perlport.

PORTING CAVEATS

$! not always set

Currently $! is not set when Nil is returned.

$_ no longer accessible from caller's scope

In future language versions of Raku, it will become impossible to access the $_ variable of the caller's scope, because it will not have been marked as a dynamic variable. So please consider changing:

readlink;

to either:

readlink($_);

or, using the subroutine as a method syntax, with the prefix . shortcut to use that scope's $_ as the invocant:

.&readlink;

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/P5readlink . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen

Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.