Whatever - a perl6ish whatever-star for perl5 SYNOPSIS this module provides a whatever-star C< * > term for perl 5. since this module is B a source filter, the name C< &* > is as close as it's going to get. use Whatever; my $greet = 'hello, ' . &* . '!'; say $greet->('world'); # prints 'hello, world!' what was: my $result = $someobj->map(sub{$_ * 2}); can now be: my $result = $someobj->map($* * 2); INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Whatever You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Whatever AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Whatever CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Whatever Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Whatever/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2010 Eric Strom This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.