This is how you could define a "hash subtraction" operator, i.e. an operator that returns the set difference between two hashes:
multi sub infix:<-> (%main, %dict) {
my %difference;
for %main.keys -> $word {
%difference{$word} = 1 unless %dict{$word}:exists;
}
return %difference;
}
You can now use the minus operator too compute the set differences between the two hashes.
Update: I did not have time to complete when I wrote the above.
Now, assuming you have a %book-words hash containing all the different words in a given book, and a %dictionary hash, you could build a hash with all the words in the book and not in the dictionary:
my %missing-words = %book-words - %dictionary;
Perl 6 does not define the minus operator between hashes, but it can easily be added to the language as shown above, and Perl 6 won't get confused.
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