I've been playing around a bit with Rakudo * and haven't been able to figure out the syntax to use the DATA filehandle. I'm beginning to suspect that it hasn't been implemented yet.

Google yielded meager results; the most promising was the preliminary "Learning Perl6" book by merlyn and brian_d_foy. It was written in 2007 however, based on pugs, and syntax has drifted since then.

I checked the Rakudo test suite to see if I could find a test using a DATA fh but didn't turn up anything.

Anyone have any pointers to documentation about this? (Even documentation saying "It isn't implemented yet."?)

From "Learning Perl6": (Doesn't work in Rakudo *)

for =$=DATA {
    .say
}

=begin DATA
1
2
3
4
5
=end

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Returns:

===SORRY!===
Non-declarative sigil is missing its name at line 3, near "$=DATA {\n 
+"

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I tried some different things but started hearing dominus commenting in my head so figured I would be better off asking.

In reply to Rakudo * DATA filehandle syntax by thundergnat

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