are
NAME
are - produce the common type / role of a list of objects
SYNOPSIS
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)
DESCRIPTION
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.
AUTHOR
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/are . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
If you like this module, or what Iām doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2022 Elizabeth Mattijsen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.