It is allowed if you have 'unit module RunNoShell;' at the top of
RunNoShell.pm6. Otherwise you defined it in the main namespace and looking
for it in the RunNoShell namespace will fail.

Perl 5 does the same thing fi you omitted 'package RunNoShell;' at the top
of RunNoShell.pm.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 6:22 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/2018 03:07 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > I'm still trying to figure out why you have just "lib" instead of "use
> > lib" there. And why it's not throwing an error.
>
> As poop!   I was mixing Perl 5 and Perl 6.
>
>
> $ p6 'use lib <./>; use RunNoShell; ( my $a, my $b ) = RunNoShell("ls");
> say $a;'
>
> Works
>
> But
>
> $ p6 'use lib <./>; use RunNoShell; ( my $a, my $b ) =
> RunNoShell::RunNoShell("ls6"); say $a;'
> Could not find symbol '&RunNoShell'
>    in block <unit> at -e line 1
>
> The syntax `RunNoShell::RunNoShell` comes from Perl 5.  Is this
> not allows in Perl 6?
>


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