On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:28:25 -0800, mt1...@gmail.com wrote:
> running tests on the Appveyor system I noticed the following;
>
>
> prove -v --merge --exec "perl6 -Ilib" t
> t\100-th.t ......
> Type check failed in binding &subtests; expected Callable but got Str
> ("instantiate")
> in sub subtest at
> C:\rakudo\share\perl6\sources\C712FE6969F786C9380D643DF17E85D06868219E
> (Test) line 292
> in block <unit> at t\100-th.t line 6
> Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
>
>
> It was the first time I switched the arguments to subtest because I've
> seen others doing it and I like it better.
>
> Earlier I did "subtest { ... tests ... }, 'description';"
> Here I did "subtest 'description', {... tests ... };"
>
> On linux there are no problems;
>
> Regards
> Marcel
That's because on Windows you're using Rakudo that's too old. Upgrade to
version 2016.07 or newer.
In the future, please include versions of the compiler you're using. You can
get those by running perl6 -v
