On Fri Feb 13 20:46:31 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> If you include statements in the body of a package, class, etc.
> declaration, those are executed at :load time which happens
> before :main. So, globals like @*ARGS which are set up in !
> UNIT_START from :main are not yet established. All three of the
> following examples should have the same results, but the middle one
> is wrong. Either setup of globals needs to happen before :load, or
> the statements in the package, class, etc. need to be moved out
> of :load methods. I think the latter is better, since :load methods
> are like BEGIN blocks.
>
> ../../parrot perl6.pbc -e 'say "(", @*ARGS, ")";' f g h
> (fgh)
>
> ../../parrot perl6.pbc -e 'package Foo { say "(", @*ARGS, ")"; }' f g h
> ()
>
> ../../parrot perl6.pbc -e 'package Foo { sub run() { say "(", @*ARGS,
> ")"; } }; Foo::run()' f g h
> (fgh)
>
... Now a /different/ two of these work:
$ ./perl6 -e 'say "(", @*ARGS, ")";' f g h
(fgh)
$ ./perl6 -e 'package Foo { say "(", @*ARGS, ")"; }' f g h
(fgh)
$ ./perl6 -e 'package Foo { sub run() { say "(", @*ARGS, ")"; } }; Foo::run()'
f g h
Can not find sub Foo::run
in main program body at line 1
--
Will "Coke" Coleda
