The ~ in front of the operator is only needed for the stringification of the list to inject spaces between the values when printed.
examples/arrays/triangle_operators.p6#!/usr/bin/env perl6 use v6; say ~[\+] 1..5; # 1 3 6 10 15 say ~[\*] 1..5; # 1 2 6 24 120
Output
examples/arrays/triangle_operators.p6.out1 3 6 10 15 1 2 6 24 120