I'm guessing that this now needs tests?
On 2017-10-07 07:35:53, b...@abrij.org wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:07:41 -0700, ju...@tnx.nl wrote:
> > code:
> >
> > class Command { method Str { "<$.^name>" } }
> > # or even just:
> > class Command { method Str { $.^name } }
> >
> > gives:
> >
> > Unsupported use of $. variable; in Perl 6 please use the .kv method
> > on
> > e.g. .lines
> >
> > workaround:
> >
> > self.^names
> >
> >
> > 00:41 < Juerd> "Unsupported use of $. variable; in Perl 6 please use
> > the .kv method on e.g. .lines" when trying $.^name
> > instead of self.^name; bug or my mistake?
> > 00:50 < AlexDaniel> Juerd: bug.
> > 00:53 < AlexDaniel> Juerd: I think this is where you would fix it:
> >
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/8e0d000fbbe1a1430695ac5dbed5bce505d89a05/src/Perl6/Grammar.nqp#L2080-
> > L2083
> > 00:54 < AlexDaniel> like, maybe this: !before ‘^’? \w
> > 00:55 < Juerd> Mind if I copy/paste that into a ticket?
> > 00:55 < AlexDaniel> sure
>
> That syntax simply hadn't been implemented yet.
>
> PR https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/1178 submitted to implement
> it.
>
> Note that a side-effect of that PR is that even when you are not in a
> class,
> you have to use e.g. ($).^mro if you want to introspect an in-place
> anonymous variable... which is probably not something many people
> would
> ever want to do, so not a big deal.
