Marking as "rejected" ; this belongs in the spec queue, not the rakudo queue.
Opened a ticket as https://github.com/perl6/specs/issues/30, with a link back to this ticket. Thanks for the report, hopefully we can get an answer from @Larry. On Sun Jan 11 07:06:08 2009, pmichaud wrote: > On Sat Jan 10 10:00:20 2009, richardh wrote: > > / <digit>+ / is what I thought it should be. > > > > { ... } is what rakudo current gives, which from the point of view of > > runnable code and comprehensible output, are wrong. > > In general, being able to use .perl on subs and methods implies that an > implementation must either (1) be able to construct a Perl 6 > representation of the compiled version of the sub/method, or (2) attach > to each sub/method a text copy of the source used to create it. > > I'm not sure how practical either of these are going to be, so would > like some clarification or confirmation from p6l first. In the > meantime, I'm marking this ticket as stalled for now. > > Thanks! > > Pm > -- Will "Coke" Coleda