I’m not 100% positive, and I can’t find it immediately in the documentation, but Perl 6 is whitespace sensitive in some situations. In particular, I think that it is interpreting the extra space as making the parameter be a list of two elements. I know that parenthesis are optional in some situations, which is why I’m guessing you’re getting this output…
Ricky > On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is perl6 whitespace sensitive? > Or is this a bug? > > I have a multi() for 1 and 2 artuments > But a 2 arg call ends up getting into the wrong sub > Apparently because there is a space between the sub name and the > Opening parenthesis? > > > > multi mysub($arg1) { > say "mysub(one): $arg1"; > } > > multi mysub($arg1, $arg2) { > say "mysub(two): '$arg1' then '$arg2'"; > } > > > > mysub(555); > mysub(123, 456); > mysub(999); > mysub (123, 456); # a space between sub and parenthesis > > output: > > mysub(one): 555 > mysub(two): '123' then '456' > mysub(one): 999 > mysub(one): 123 456 <== whoops! > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
