On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 07:54:01 -0800, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > FWIW the error message seems to be coming from MoarVM: > https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/blob/ad86184681590c81fc25b9e90b406e5163098796/src/6model/reprconv.c#L607 > (many similar lines like this in that file) > > On 2017-11-05 07:46:17, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hey Tobias, it looks like you've been working on this ticket for over > > two > > years. How is it going? > > On 2015-04-09 12:09:55, FROGGS.de wrote: > > > How about: > > > > > > (before) > > > $ perl6-m -e 'class A { has $!x; method foo { say $!x } }; A.foo' > > > Cannot look up attributes in a type object > > > in method foo at -e:1 > > > in block <unit> at -e:1 > > > > > > (after) > > > $ perl6-m -e 'class A { has $!x; method foo { say $!x } }; A.foo' > > > Cannot look up attributes in a type object. Perhaps you need to > > > instanciate first? > > > in method foo at -e:1 > > > in block <unit> at -e:1
The error message was recently improved in https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/commit/68a18b4f22553bfd96c47c8d7453af881772b3d4#diff-be9fec83f5b58ba42962ded7b65de075 $ perl6-m -e 'class A { has $!x; method foo { say $!x } }; A.foo' Cannot look up attributes in a A type object in method foo at -e line 1 in block <unit> at -e line 1
