They are methods of the list class, at least here, at least as far as I understand it.
My understanding is also that the operator forms multi-dispatch to the appropriate methods according to their arguments.
In reply to Re^3: Perl6 dot syntax (for methods?)
by chromatic
in thread Perl6 dot syntax (for methods?)
by Thilosophy
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