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In Perl 6, operators are defined by subs. Operator subs have to have an appropriate name and signature. They get automatically added to the Perl 6 grammar in the current lexical scope as soon as their name and signature have been successfully parsed.

For example, infix operators have a name of the form 'infix:<op>' and two parameters. So the code: 

sub infix:<foo> ($lhs, $rhs) { dd $lhs  };
sub infix:<in>  ($lhs, @rhs) { dd @rhs  };
1 foo 2;
3 in [3,4];

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prints (via `dd`, the built in datadumper): 
$lhs = 1
@rhs = [3, 4]

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For more details start at the Defining Operators section in the official end user doc.

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In reply to Re: Create a new operator, get LHS by raiph
in thread Create a new operator, get LHS by stevieb

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