NAME Whatever - a perl6ish whatever-star for perl5 VERSION Version 0.21 SYNOPSIS this module provides a whatever-star * term for perl 5. since this module is not a source filter, the name &* or $* 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