Usually this happens when you have an unclosed string somewhere earlier in your
code.
That is:
say "foo; ← oops! Forgot the closing "
# $a ← we think that this is a comment, but actually it's part of the string
above!
On 2019-01-23 01:27:08, warren.mu...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I ran into this while setting up a post test for json
> in bailador. While compiling it flags the commented
> line at the end as bad when the fail should be on the
> check of request.body[0].
>
> It happened with the latest rakudo built from scratch
> as of Jan 23rd 2019 as well as rakudo-star 2018.10.
>
> Linux Mint system, 64 bit.
>
>
>
>
> # --->perl6 t1.pl6
> # ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling
> /home/userx/p6d/tests/latester/t1.pl6
> # Variable '%bb' is not declared
> # at /home/userx/p6d/tests/latester/t1.pl6:97
> # ------> #pukes here #say ⏏%bb{"name"};
>
> # code snippet that causes the parser to think
> # the commented code below is not commented
> if request.body[0] == "{" { say "JSON"} else {say "NOTJSON"};
>
> # #my %bb = from-json(request.body);
> #
> # this one pukes
> #pukes here #say %bb{"name"};
