> On 29 May 2017, at 18:26, brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> wrote: > I did pull my first example out of a slightly larger program I was > playing with, but I thought that a match would surely have no effect. > Stupid me, because I've been around long enough to know that > assumption is almost always false. That "harmless" thing you leave out > is the actual problem. Here's a complete program that reproduces it: > > 'abcdef' ~~ m/ cd /; > > my $thingy = %(); > put $thingy.^name; #Map
Well, do we consider the named matches of a match modifiable or not? Feels to me having it as an (immutable) Map feels actually closer to the intent, rather than it being a (modifiable) Hash. It also gives more opportunity for optimization. So perhaps the Hashes should be considered the odd ones out? Liz
