Re: [perl #74850] [BUG] Strange error when doing '.= new' on an attribute in Rakudo

[Will Coleda]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Will Coleda via RT
<perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> On Sun May 02 08:33:11 2010, masak wrote:
>> <masak> rakudo: class A {}; class B { has A $.foo .= new }
>> <p6eval> rakudo c4857a: OUTPUT«too few positional arguments: 1 passed,
>> 2 (or more) expected [...]
>> <slavik> s1n: it will take 1 month to do that ...
>> * masak submits rakudobug
>> <masak> alpha: class A {}; class B { has A $.foo .= new }
>> <p6eval> alpha 30e0ed: OUTPUT«error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected
>> '\n'␤   in file 'EVAL_25' line 186␤Null PMC access in
>> find_method('new') [...]
>
> This now complains about trying to append to an unitialized string,
> which seems reasonable:
>
> 15:51 < [Coke]> rakudo: class A {}; class B { has A $.foo .= new }
> 15:51 <+p6eval> rakudo 142c41: OUTPUT«Use of uninitialized value in
> string
>                context␤Use of uninitialized value in string
>                context␤===SORRY!===␤error:imcc:syntax error,
> unexpected DOT
>                ('.')␤     in file '(file unknown)' line 371␤␤»
>
> Closable with tests.
>
> --
> Will "Coke" Coleda
>

Whoa. much less reasonable is that IMCC error hidden in the output
there. I take back the closable bit.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda