Re: [perl #61596] Rakudo does the Wrong Thing when defining subs via eval string

[Larry Wall]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:29:06AM -0800, Carl Mäsak wrote:
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: 
: <masak> rakudo: eval "sub x { say q<O, NI HAO> }"; say "before call"; x
: <p6eval> rakudo 34238: OUTPUT[O, NI HAO␤before call␤Could not find
: non-existent sub x [...]
: * masak submits rakudobug
: 
: To summarize:
: 
: * "O, NI HAO" should not be output during the eval call.
: * The sub x shouldn't be non-existent.
: * An memory error of type "corrupted double-linked list" should not
: occur. (The error is not shown above, but occurs when `perl6` is run
: from the command line.)

It did exactly what you asked it to, which was interpolate a closure
into a double-quoted string.

Larry