Perl 6 Cool Perl 6 #89

Type-based dispatch

Type constraints in signature used to select sub:

multi sub double(Num $x) {
    return 2 * $x;
}

multi sub double(Str $x) {
    return "$x $x";
}

say double(21);        # 42
say double("Hello");   # Hello Hello
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