That's an ambiguous parse for 1 arg vs 2 arg form, are the parents a function call or an expression. Space disambiguates it: f( a, a2) is function, f (a, a2) is an expression whose result is passed to the function.
On Wed, 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 > -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
