On Wed Jul 14 15:42:09 2010, cognominal wrote: > Sorry. My example was wrong. Here another one. C<a([])> executes as > intended but > C<@t> does not. I find that unintuitive. > > > cat mmd5.pm6 > multi sub a(@a) { say 1 ~ @a.perl } > multi sub a([]) { say 2 ~ [].perl } > my @t=(1,2); > a([]); > a(@t) > $ perl6 mmd5.pm6 > 2[] > No applicable candidates found to dispatch to for 'a'. Available > candidates are: > :(@a) > :(Positional ()) > > in main program body at line 5:mmd5.pm6 > $ >
This works now: $ cat foo multi sub a(@a) { say 1 ~ @a.perl } multi sub a([]) { say 2 ~ [].perl } my @t=(1,2); a([]); a(@t) $ ./perl6 foo 1Array.new() 1Array.new(1, 2) Closable with tests. -- Will "Coke" Coleda