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Hi there, this is crossposed in the perl6-users mailing list. Since noone stopped me from assuming that this is a bug, i am going to open this now: Assuming those two files A.pm and B.pm. The file A.pm contains a class A and a role R with a private-method and a $!private member. (the files are in the end of the e-mail) 1) I am wondering why a role can all its private methods: > perl6 -I. -e 'use A; use B; my $b = B.new; $b.public-method()' priv method 2) but can't write its private members: > perl6 -I. -e 'use A; use B; my $b = B.new; $b.set_private(A.new); $b.r' No such private method '!!private' for invocant of type 'B' in method set_private at /home/martin/.workspace/p6/realerror/A.pm (A) line 24 in block <unit> at -e line 1 WHEN! the set_private looks like this: method set_private(A $a) { self!private = $a; } 3) It seems to work (well, it gets a error a bit later in $b.r): > perl6 -I. -e 'use A; use B; my $b = B.new; $b.set_private(A.new); $b.r ' P6opaque: no such attribute '$!private' in type B when trying to get a value in method s at /home/martin/.workspace/p6/realerror/A.pm (A) line 11 in method s at /home/martin/.workspace/p6/realerror/A.pm (A) line 11 in method r at /home/martin/.workspace/p6/realerror/A.pm (A) line 6 in block <unit> at -e line 1 WHEN set_private looks like this: method set_private(A $a) { $!private = $a; } But method !s seems to be broken now. I dont get why :( i would expect this to work. :-( In addition I think the error message is broken: "No such private method '!!private' for invocant of type 'B'" it was differently in 2016.11