Couple clarifications about my prior message.
> And to copy into something the thing has to be a mutable container.
"mutable" and "container" are basically redundant with each other.
Mutable means changeable. Container means data that has only one
purpose, namely to be changeable.
> that's presumably a problem with whatever code you've
written that has earlier bound $ReturnStr to an immutable value.
Or you need to use a fresh variable.
--
raiph
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:29 AM Ralph Mellor <ralphdjmel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In P6 "assign" means use of `=`.
>
> And "assign to" means to copy into the thing on the left of the `=`.
>
> And to copy into something the thing has to be a mutable container.
>
> The error message is saying that $ReturnStr is bound to an
> immutable value (eg a string) not a container.
>
> So that's presumably a problem with whatever code you've
> written that has earlier bound $ReturnStr to an immutable value.
>
> --
> raiph
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:19 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
> perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/13/18 3:02 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > if $StdOut { $ReturnStr = $$proc.out.slurp-rest; }
>> >
>> > gives me
>> >
>> > Malformed UTF-8
>> >
>> > How do I clean up $$proc.out.slurp-rest ??
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> > -T
>>
>> This does not work:
>>
>> if $StdOut { $ReturnStr = $$proc.out.slurp-rest( enc => 'utf8-c8' ); }
>>
>> Can not assign to an immutable value
>>
>
