Hi, Try this:
my $stringy = "abc"; say $stringy.^parents(:all); This should display: ((Cool) (Any) (Mu)) Cheers, Laurent. 2018-07-29 19:27 GMT+02:00 Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com>: > If you look at the type diagram: > > https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#___top > > You can see that: > Str is Cool is Any is Mu > > But if you use the ^parents method on a string, you don't get > "Cool", instead you get "()": > > my $stringy = "abc"; > say $stringy.^name; # Str > say $stringy.^parents; # () > > say (Str).^parents; # () > > So what exactly does ^parents tell you about? > Is there some other method you could use to trace the chain > of ancestors upwards? >
