On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Jeff Horwitz wrote:The result is that Foo.new() becomes: $P20 = "Foo"() $P21 = "!dispatch_method"($P20, "new") with the out-of-place "Foo"() failing miserably. The offending code can be easily reproduced using the pir target: [j...@groovy rakudo]$ ./perl6 --target=pirFoo.newRakudo is behaving precisely according to the spec here -- unknown identifiers ("Foo") are presumed to be listops in absence of some other declaration. So, Foo.new above is exactly the same as Foo().new() . In order to get the above to work you'd need a "use Foo;" statement somewhere first, to load the Foo class (and register it in the parser).
ok, makes sense. it worked before, so i thought something was broken. turns out it was me. :)
i'm going to have to play some games to get this working correctly when i precompile my modules, since these classes are created by the mod_parrot runtime and don't exist at compile-time.
-jeff
