Reminds me a lot of Arc's square bracket syntax:
[* _ 2]
(lambda (x) (* x 2)) [* _ 2]
(lambda (x) (* x 2))Here's the Ruby examples in perl6 (all work in Rakudo)...
[10, 11, 12].map: (* + 87).chr;
@owners.map: *<name>;
"alpha\nbeta\ngamma\n".lines.map: *.uc;