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### -- ValueList
### -- Licenses: Artistic-2.0
### -- Authors: Elizabeth Mattijsen
### -- File: README.md
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NAME
====

ValueList - Provide an immutable List value type

SYNOPSIS
========

```raku
use ValueList;

my @a is ValueList = ^10;  # initialization follows single-argument semantics
my @b is ValueList = ^10;

set( @a, @b );  # elems == 1
```

DESCRIPTION
===========

Raku provides a semi-immutable `Positional` datatype: List. A `List` can not have any elements added or removed from it. However, since a list **can** contain containers of which the value can be changed, it is not a value type. So you cannot use Lists in data structures such as `Set`s, because each List is considered to be different from any other List, because they are not value types.

AUTHOR
======

Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@raku.rocks>

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/ValueList . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

If you like this module, or what I’m doing more generally, committing to a [small sponsorship](https://github.com/sponsors/lizmat/) would mean a great deal to me!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
=====================

Copyright 2022, 2024, 2025 Elizabeth Mattijsen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.



