You are using ~, which stringifies. Bufs are not strings: you need to decode them to concatenate it to a string. If what you want is to concatenate the buffer, probably ,= will work (not sure about this, would have to check), or any other operator that works on Positionals.
JJ El mar., 11 feb. 2020 a las 10:56, David Santiago (<deman...@gmail.com>) escribió: > A 11 de fevereiro de 2020 10:47:34 CET, David Santiago <deman...@gmail.com> > escreveu: > >A 11 de fevereiro de 2020 09:46:06 CET, David Santiago < > deman...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> > >>Hi! > >> > >>Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: > >> > >>my Blob $read; > >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > >> > >>Dies with error: > >> > >>X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy > method on it > >> > >>This also doesn't work: > >> > >>my Buf $read; > >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > >> > >>Dies with the same error as above. > >> > >> > >>But this works? > >> > >>my Blob $read = Buf.new; > >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > >> > >> > >>Best regards, > >>David Santiago > > > > > >Hi! > > > >Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: > > > >my Blob $read; > >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > > >Dies with error: > > > >X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy > method on it > > > >This also doesn't work: > > > >my Buf $read; > >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > > >Dies with the same error as above. > > > > > >But this works? > > > >my Blob $read = Buf.new; > >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > > > > >Best regards, > >David Santiago > > > Hi! > > Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: > > my Blob $read; > $read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > Dies with error: > > X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy > method on it > > This also doesn't work: > > my Buf $read; > $read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > Dies with the same error as above. > > > But this works? > > my Blob $read = Buf.new; > $read ~= $socket.read(1024); > > > Best regards, > David Santiago > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- JJ