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Endian Reference

Indicate endianness (6.d, 2018.12 and later)

What it is #

Routines #

Signatures are reproduced from the documentation, including their declared return types. A routine listed here is part of the type's published interface; whether Raku++ implements it is a separate question, answered by the examples below.

routine Numeric #

multi method Numeric(Endian:D --> Int:D)

Returns Int:D.

Returns the value part of the enum pair. Note that the actual numeric values are subject to change. So please use the named values instead.

Examples, run three ways #

Every example below comes from the official documentation, together with the output that documentation asserts. Each was then executed by Rakudo and by Raku++ when this page was built. Where the three agree, one result is shown; where they do not, all three are — because which of them is wrong is exactly the information worth having.

1 no-output · 1 ok

enum Endian <NativeEndian LittleEndian BigEndian>;

Not executed: the documentation states no expected output for this example.

say NativeEndian.Numeric;    # OUTPUT: «0␤»
say LittleEndian.Numeric;    # OUTPUT: «1␤»
say BigEndian.Numeric;       # OUTPUT: «2␤»
Output
0
1
2

Documentation, Rakudo and Raku++ all agree.